Final Blog Post

     After spending time in my placement, I have noticed that math usually plays a small role in the classroom especially compared to literacy and writing. In my future classroom, I envision math playing a large role in my classroom. Not only by the lessons taught, but physically around my classroom as well. I don't want my student's thinking that math is something that they only use in school.
    With literacy, it is important to model for the students, have guided lessons as well as independent work. For math, I believe the students should also have modeled math, guided work as well as independent. Math in a way is very similar to literacy. Having each type of learning in the classroom will best scaffold the students in their learning of math. Math can be learned gradually and using these steps will best help students learn math. Through modeling, guided learning and independent work, I want tmy students to use hands on activities, assessments and planning. I want my students to feel as though they can ask questions and question what math is and why we use it. I want the work that they do in my classroom to require prior knowledge. I also want teh math lessons to connect to one another and do my best to relate to one another so the students can see a sequence in math.