It was interesting to hear about Dr. Shih's life. I also was surprised how much I learned in the first day. Learning about how students think is not usually what we learned about in past methods class but I can definitely see how it will be helpful in Math. Even simply putting the problem
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-7
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on the board was enough to get me thinking: Why have teachers taught us the way that they have? Why did they emphasize the "rules" rather than teaching us the reason for why certain methods work?
When we were going over the ways to solve the cheese word problem, it was weird that the first strategy that came to mind was to subtract. Nowhere in the problem does it say to subtract, yet that is what I thought of. I think this is why I have always hated word problems; Teachers always taught me to look out for "key words" and to rearrange the problem instead of taking it face value.
I'm excited for the next class because it is really interesting to see how students' (and our) minds work.
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