Monday, September 21, 2020

September 21 Exit Slip

Today in class we reflected on our key takeaways from the reading of the week by Skemp, "Relational Understanding and Instrumental Understanding". I enjoyed hearing the opinions of my peers on the reading. We realized that our own experiences influence our teaching, but this can change throughout our career as we embrace new ways to look at math and new was to teach those new ways to look at math. As much as I may have grown up with a strong emphasis in instrumental understanding, especially in elementary school, I am now cognizant of this distinction in looking back and looking ahead as I put my experiences into my teaching philosophy and put that into practice. Another takeaway from class I have is how introducing puzzles in our classes (much like we have in this very course) is a way to naturally spark curiosity and foster relational understanding.

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