Classroom Changes Reflection

The math classroom in the 21^st century in taking on some very different changes compared to some of the years prior. Math is becoming more inquiry based. Students learn best when they are discovering and exploring. This is hard to do for every math topic and for every lesson; however as future teachers it is important to provide our students with sufficient lessons that will challenge them and allow them to explore and investigate the different math problems. The math environment is important as well. We need to make sure we are providing students with a variety of different communicating tasks as well. For example students should be given the chance to work with groups, partners individually and also have the chance to present their knowledge to the class. We are not only building strong math learners we are build strong life skill learners. A math classroom needs to have a variety of different teaching and learning tasks and these should be altered quite frequently. This will keep the students more engaged and on task and hopefully excited about learning.