Analysis of Differnt Types of Learning Methods

Learning methods simply mean a person’s natural desired way of take in, managing and memorizing new content and skills. There are three major models that look at the way on how a person learns best including: auditory, visual, and sense of touch. Auditory is when a person learns through conversation such as listening and talking. Visual is when a person learns through imitating such as observing and copying. Sense of touch is when a person learns through physical actions such as movement and touch. Different learning methods are being taught by teachers to teach mathematic skills to 2nd graders in today’s classroom, but only certain learning methods can enhance the learning experience for the students. In the long run, this could help students to build a solid foundation for their mathematic skill and succeed in their future academic school years.

Analysis of Learning Methods

Cover, Copy and Compare (CCC) is a learning method that requires students to look at a correct example such as a math statement and its answer. Then, students cover the example and jot down the example and its answer. Lastly, students check their answer with the example; if the student's answer the example correctly such as matches the example’s answer, the student can moves on to the next example. On the other hand, if the student's answer is incorrect, he or she has to re-answer the example with the correct answer before he or she could move on to the next example (Poncy, McCallum & Schmitt, 2010).

Facts That Last (FTL) is a learning method that promotes students’ understanding of the basic concepts of subtraction. First, students were given a proper amount of math statements to practice on. Then, the teacher teaches students strategies to unders...

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...e research. Though, the researchers used several data sets to form their outcomes for the research. Within the seven months test period, the results showed that students were significant improved overall on their mathematics skills (Sherman & Catapano, 2011).

Different learning methods are being taught by teachers to teach mathematic skills to 2nd graders in today’s classroom, but only certain learning methods can enhance the learning experience for the students. Sooner or later, this could help students to build a solid foundation for their mathematic skill and succeed in their future academic school years. Learning methods that included all three of the major models such as: auditory, visual and sense of touch tend to be more effective than those learning methods that just included one or two major models in developing mathematic skills for 2nd grade students.