Although you have never taken a course in mathematics education before, you have already formed a lot of ideas about mathematics and mathematics teaching and learning through your experience in school mathematics classes. For your first writing assignment, I would like you to answer the following questions.
- What is mathematics?
- How do I learn mathematics best? Explain why you believe this.
- How will my students learn mathematics best? Explain why you think this is true.
- What are some of the current practices in school mathematics classrooms that promote students' learning of mathematics? Justify your reasoning.
- What are some of the current practices in school mathematics classrooms that are detrimental to students' learning of mathematics? Justify your reasoning.
When you visit three blogs to read and make comments, your comment should include the following:
- Something that you and the author both agree about, and why you agree with the author.
- Some area in which you think differently from the author and why. This may either be a point the author makes that you disagree with, or an additional point that you think is important but is not included in the author's responses. Use hedging language, such as "perhaps," "maybe," "I wonder," to soften the tone of your response and to be respectful of the author's ideas.
Due Date: Entries due by class on Jan 6; comments due by class on Jan 8.
For some reason the links to some of the student blogs are not working...
ReplyDeleteMine isn't working right now. But, if you just type in kevtab.blogspot.com into the address line, you can get to my blog.
Kevin
Kevin, I think the links are working now. At least, when I clicked on your blog link, it took me to your blog. I noticed yesterday that some of the links weren't working, but I think that was because people had created the blog without posting anything. Once the first post is published, the links seemed to work fine.
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