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Teachers must effectively teach a variety of math concepts to help students succeed both inside and outside the classroom. This includes teaching number sense, algebraic thinking, geometry, statistics, and more. Lessons should incorporate mathematical practices like problem solving, reasoning, modeling, and using tools and strategies. While the teacher feels prepared to teach most elementary math topics, they recognize a need to strengthen their understanding of geometric surface area formulas and explanations. The artifacts provided demonstrate multiple approaches to teaching key math concepts like operations, fractions, and number recognition in engaging hands-on ways aligned to standards.

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Math Reflection Final Web

Teachers must effectively teach a variety of math concepts to help students succeed both inside and outside the classroom. This includes teaching number sense, algebraic thinking, geometry, statistics, and more. Lessons should incorporate mathematical practices like problem solving, reasoning, modeling, and using tools and strategies. While the teacher feels prepared to teach most elementary math topics, they recognize a need to strengthen their understanding of geometric surface area formulas and explanations. The artifacts provided demonstrate multiple approaches to teaching key math concepts like operations, fractions, and number recognition in engaging hands-on ways aligned to standards.

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Math Reflection

Math is important to everyday life, future careers, and even good citizenship. It enables
students to interpret economic data, participate in political discussions, and make wiser personal
financial decisions. In order for students to be a part of society, math must be of a high quality.
In addition to just the basic math skills and knowledge, teachers must be able to foster, engage,
develop, and help students know and be able to do mathematical practices and content. They
need to teach reasoning and explaining, model with mathematics, use appropriate tools and
strategies, and how to look for and make use of structure and how to express regularity in
repeated reasoning. Teachers need to develop an expertise in the subject of math so that students
can be successful in the global economy. They must be able to give students a variety of tools to
solve and understand math.

They must be able to teach: Number and Quantity, Algebra,

Functions, Modeling, Geometry, Statistics and Probability. Math should be fun and engaging, so
that students can understand and continue to have an interest in growth. Teacher must be able to
explain why each math skill is important and build on previous skills to reinforce the foundation
on their cognitive abilities. From Kinder and onto the twelfth grade they must exemplify the
three principles of focus, coherence, and rigor that meet or exceed the Common Core standards.
Teachers must provide students with strong foundational conceptual understanding, a high
degree of procedural skills and fluency, and the ability to apply the mathematics they know to
solve problems inside and outside the mathematics classroom. Statistics show that the more the
teacher knows, receives training, and develops their math skills the better his/her students have to
succeed. They will be able to apply such skills to the real world and to their future.
My classes have developed my understanding of how to explain the process of problem
solving. They have given me examples of techniques that can be used to explain not only the

how, but the why. I enjoy math; math is my favorite subject, so with my knowledge, training,
and experience I feel I can teach in all areas of math. I feel well prepared for all areas in
Elementary Math, from basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division to fractions,
decimals, place value, area, perimeter, shapes, circumference, algebra. The only thing that I may
need more practice in is Geometrical Surface Area. I need to review the formulas and why they
are what they are, so that when teaching my students, they will not only know the formulas, but
why those particular formulas came about.
For my artifacts, I will use examples of division models, multiplication models, GCF&
LCM Venn Diagrams, Prime Numbers worksheet and a project for my Math 110 class. My work
samples represent and demonstrate the methods I was trained on that will help my students
understand the different ways to solve math problems. The multiplication, division models can
be used to teach operations and algebraic thinking in the third grade, while the GCF& LCM
Venn Diagrams can help in teaching fractions through Number and Operation. The Common
Core states that students must be able to represent and solve problems involving multiplication
and division; these artifacts show one way to represent and solve multiplication and division.
The GCF & LCM Venn Diagrams are a fourth grade standard (Gain familiarity with factors and
multiples) under operations and algebraic thinking, but they can be used for third grade when
teaching equivalent fractions (3. Explain equivalence of fractions in special cases, and compare
fractions by reasoning about their size). The prime number worksheet can be used to teach a
variety of grade levels, it can be used to teach Kinder (Know number names and the count
sequence;1. Count to 100 by ones and by tens; Count forward beginning from a given number
within the known sequence, although prime numbers is not a standard until the fourth grade
(Gain familiarity with factors and multiples-4. Find all factor pairs for a whole number in the

range 1100. Recognize that a whole number is a multiple of each of its factors. Determine
whether a given whole number in the range 1100 is a multiple of a given one-digit number.
Determine whether a given whole number in the range 1100 is prime or composite). This
worksheet can be adapted to meet different level grades. My last artifact, the project, is a project
that can be used for Kinder to teach the number recognition standard (Counting and Cardinality;
Know number names and the count sequence; Count to tell the number of objects; Compare
numbers). They show that there are many ways of teaching math, ways that are fun and further
develop the basic skills students need not only to succeed in Elementary Math but for higher
learning.

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