The Importance Of Math Education

This is class was very difficult for me. While math has always come easy to me, I’ve always struggled at helping others find the same kinds of success. I could get good assessment scores in math, but I couldn’t help my friends do well. This is how I felt while working the coursework lined up in this class, like I couldn’t help the kids in my class do well. I do feel more confident about my ability to assist individuals, large group math instruction seems like a daunting task destined for failure. I do feel more equip to tackle math instruction after reading the chapters and completing the assignments. The coursework provided me with tools to be an effective math teacher for students who struggle with math. As someone who lives in literacy

In my current teaching assignment, I share a classroom with another special education teacher who co-teaches five periods of seventh grade math per day. As a result, all math related questions go to her (kids come to me for assistance with literacy). To be honest, I am perfectly okay with this set up. I have jokingly said to my roommate that “my brain doesn’t work that way.” All joking aside, math instruction is difficult for me. A side from showing a student a procedure over and over again, I knew no other teaching strategies for teaching math. The course definitely changed that. I know feel better suited to field questions, help students, and introduce strategies. I feel like the confidence stems from the books we assigned. First, I thought all of scope and sequencing and related strategies and examples from the Hudson and Miller were excellent. Having to prior background in math instruction, I hadn’t ever even thought about what needs to be taught, with what rigor, and in what order. It just hadn’t crossed my mind

Growing up, I always enjoyed creating games whether at home or at school. I was happy to see that the assignments for both chapters 8 &9 and chapters 10-12 game both involved the creation of a math game. This is where I feel like excelled the most in the class. I have not printed off or used the games yet. This is something that I do want to do in the future. I think the games would be especially helpful, effective, and engaging at the start of the school year when students aren’t getting assignments yet and have some time to review and explore previous mastered skills, topics, and standards before digging into the new set for the school year. I believe students would enjoy the games I created and that they would be meaningful as well. At the start of next year, I will have the games ready to be played by the students in my room during study hall time in the