Final Reflection

Based on my vision from last week, I see math instruction playing a big role in my classroom. I hope to incorporate math into as many aspects of the classroom as possible. I plan on teaching younger students (K-2), so I hope to show students that math is fun and very useful in other settings besides simply math class. I can show students this by providing interactive activities about different math concepts, as well as discussing with students how they will use math in their future.

My placement is in Kindergarten this year, and my mentor teacher integrates math in all over the classroom. For example, the class does math every day first thing in the morning through counting the number of people who answered “yes” and “no” to the question of the day and then write a greater than or less than sentence based on the numbers. This is something so simple that does not take up much time during the day, but incorporates math. Math is also a part of daily calendar, weather, and centers.

I also plan on using music as an instructional technique for math. There are numerous songs about counting and other math topics that the students in this class really seem to enjoy and remember. For assessments, I plan on using some of the traditional methods such as worksheets, but also using discussion with students as a big part of assessing them. For example, talking with students to ask them how they knew the answer to problems and how they solved them will tell me a lot about what they do and don’t know about a given topic.