Learning it all over again...

Last week's class was, once again, quite interesting to say the least. During class, our professor thought of a clever way to make us look through the Ontario curriculum. She managed to do this by creating a Jeopardy game and did this by splitting the class into groups. Indeed, this made us more knowledgeable of the curriculum but it also made us want to learn it - especially in a competitive way. Unfortunately for my team, we lost but that's okay.

During my first week of placement at Regina Mundi Catholic Elementary School, there were two whole periods of math. This was good for me since I still need to re-familiarize myself with the math work. The class was in the middle of a unit where they had to find the common difference by using a T-chart. A difficult challenge was given to the class - one that I found quite difficult as well. The students were to create two different formulas to find the number. I'm still not quite sure if it's called common difference since they were to find the pattern/difference between the set of numbers.

I found it to be amazing that the teacher only used the Smartboard to teach the math lesson. He used multiple colours to distinguish what he was writing. Here's an example of the work from the class:

My associate professor taught me a really good lesson that teaches me to be a better math educator. The number rule, he states, is to not know all the answers in your lesson. If you know all the answers, then it's not as fun for the students. If you don't know the answer, you and your students will all work together to figure out the answer - it promotes teamwork and allows for more engagement in the lesson. I look forward to integrating this into my future math lessons.