Well I can honestly say this week has not been anything special. I do not know where my mind is, I forget everything, and I feel like I am not in the moment. But, even with all of this I have been noticing something interesting in my classroom when it comes to math. They all excel when they use extra variables (blocks, fingers, pieces of paper) in the lesson. I know we discussed this in class, but I never noticed it until we did. Unlike Mr. Shih's story where the student looked up to count the dots on the ceiling, my students tap their feet, stare off into space, and quietly murmur numbers to get to the correct answer. Makes me frustrated for them.
I was taught in class that we needed to not count our fingers when we were trying to do math, "how will you remember it if you don't memorize it?" Honestly though, four years later students do every math problem on a calculator anyway so what could it hurt to allow students to continue using their own methods instead of modeling them into what we were taught?
*Keeps an eye out for more math situations.*
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