Good Day Bloggers!
Objective:
This week, I will present my responses to questions, ideas and information presented this week in the course EDBE 8P54 at Brock University! For this week, we threw ourselves into magic = math, and for our online portion, we continued our webinar familiarization and focused on growth mindset in the educational field of mathematics!
Growth Mindset = Positive Experiences in Mathematics:
We as a class have come to realize just how necessary it is to have a growth mindset when studying mathematics; indeed in any subject! For this week, we started our class by completing a card trick. In groups and as a class, we attempted to figure out the card trick through mathematics. The only way the card trick made sense was through factoring the cards and determining how one could come up with three queens and one king. I quickly found the math problem to be problematic for a majority of the class, as most people have not had the experiences of mathematical reasoning at this level for quite some time. Some Teacher Candidates understood through their prior knowledge of factoring, but the majority felt a certain unease towards the problem at hand. In this case, having a growth mindset about the problem and allowing yourself to have some unease can help grow you as a student of mathematics! We all have different ways of learning followed through at alternative paces, but having a growth mindset truly contributes to success; when you can overcome these moments of unease. As a mathematics educator, this is what should be impressed on our students.
Connecting Experiences:
To me, this sort of growth mindset is comparable to my practicum experiences from last year. Transforming my thought process from university student learning to teaching at the grade 8 level was quite a change, particularly in language and mathematics. I was not entirely sure what to expect from myself and the students, but I knew that having a growth mindset would encourage positive learning in the classroom. I contributed to the idea that everyone had something to offer to the classroom environment, and to mathematics problems, that is no different. With a fixed mindset, students are not able to achieve their full potential, and this can have serious consequences later in their education.
Reflection:
In this week of mathematics study, I have learned to further use growth mindset for both myself and my future students. Mathematics can have its complications, but through a growth mindset we can continue to grow as students, even to break down complicated fraction questions as was the case in our class this week. By reflecting on the question, looking at it in multiple ways, and looking for patterns in the question, it is easier to produce a solution to a complicated problem.
Thats all for now Fellow Bloggers! Until next week :)
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