There are 2 important lessons I want to teach my students.
1. I teach math intervention. Many of my students will say, frequently, that math is hard. When they finally master a skill, they say that it is easy. I jokingly have banned the word "easy" in my class. I tell the students that the math is just as difficult as it was when they started learning it, but now they have gotten smarter and gained new skills, so they know how to complete the math. I saw a photo of a sign on Twitter a few weeks ago that I want to have printed for my classroom.
In the class, we don't do EASY. We make easy happen through HARD WORK and LEARNING.
I want my students to learn to have confidence in themselves; to believe that they can learn anything.
2. I want my students to start to notice where math is in the real world. I frequently ask them if they seen math in the real world, especially on Mondays. I love it when they notice something a parent did in the kitchen, in the garage shop, with the car, on a shopping trip, etc that involved math. When my students start seeing math everywhere, they will start to understand why they need to learn math in school.
1. I teach math intervention. Many of my students will say, frequently, that math is hard. When they finally master a skill, they say that it is easy. I jokingly have banned the word "easy" in my class. I tell the students that the math is just as difficult as it was when they started learning it, but now they have gotten smarter and gained new skills, so they know how to complete the math. I saw a photo of a sign on Twitter a few weeks ago that I want to have printed for my classroom.
In the class, we don't do EASY. We make easy happen through HARD WORK and LEARNING.
I want my students to learn to have confidence in themselves; to believe that they can learn anything.
2. I want my students to start to notice where math is in the real world. I frequently ask them if they seen math in the real world, especially on Mondays. I love it when they notice something a parent did in the kitchen, in the garage shop, with the car, on a shopping trip, etc that involved math. When my students start seeing math everywhere, they will start to understand why they need to learn math in school.