monday

Today I was very surprised. Dr. Shih was telling us all about his 4 year old and everything he does with her. Shes going to be a smart cookie one day. I have 2nd graders who are struggling with the base 10 model and here we go a 4 year old can do it. This just amazes me! I am definately going to start my kid very young too. We also watched more insightful videos which i really enjoyed as well. Its crazy with the ways these kids can solve these types of problems with no problem at all. It amazes me more that htey were never taught to use these certain strategies. Math is a crazy world!!!!! Im so glad am finally finished the final exam. It took me forever, at least 6 hours to complete. I tried to be as thouough as i could be, but im not going to lie i did struggle with it a bit. Some were a bit tricky. YAY!!!! i got through it and i finished. Time to do the virtual assignment now rrrrrrrr...................... After everything we ahve learned, the virtual assignment seems meh!!!

wednesday

Today we learned about equalities. This was actually kind of funny as a few of us at our table even got these wrong. I would love to try these with the students in my classroom, just to see what they write. I think it will be very interesting. I really enjoy everything we do in this class, everything is so eye opening and things get introduced to us that i would never even think about normally.

Monday

Monday was very nerve racking if i had to say so myself. A quiz and the manipulative performance assessment all in one day. Lets just say that it was a very long night for me the night before as i had gotten no sleep. I stayed up most of hte night worrying about the assessment. I woke up my boyfriend numerous of times for him to quiz me. He was not a happy camper but he was okay with helping me. Anyway, today was the big day. My tummy was in knots as i knew that i st ruggled with the multiplication division problems, and was hoping that me and my partner got addition or subtraction as i was getting those down very well. As my scared little butt walked up there what do you know, YIP i got a crazy partitive question. I tried my luck to switch but i had no luck, none at all. Surprisingly it was not that bad at all, actually i almost had fun doing it, and to make the cherry on top of my cake even sweeter, i got a 5 on the quiz. YIP little me got a 5. I was such a happy camper that day, and i was incredibly releived after i had gone. Dr. Shih, make it very easy going and laid back feeling which i thank him greatly for. It was just a great day, and i am learning soooooo much with him.

monday

Okay, so monday wasn't the best day that i have had. I just couldn't think, therefore, taking the quiz i don't think went too well. The first quiz i took wasn't too bad. I think i did okay on that one, but the multiplication- division one i just bombed. For some reason, i found myself just staring at them with a blank mind. Anyway, i can't change the past, I can just improve the future. I hope, this performance assessment ordeal seems pretty scary. I think i am going to have my boyfriend quiz me and to be my partner until i can at least identify the problems correctly. I am pretty nervous about the part that we have to quickly make up the word problem to give our partner. I hope that my word problem matches the appropriate cue on the card, as i don't want to screw my partner up. Anyway, practice makes perfect; we will just have to see.
Otherwise. Monday went okay. I think the next few weeks are going to be interesting and a bit stressful.

Wednesday

Wednesday class was a pretty easy class. I was dissapointed when i got my quiz back, not because I only got a 4 but because I knew the answer and i just did a goofy mistake. Those are always the kick you in the butt kinda situations. I really enjoyed doing centers today. I can't recall ever experiencing centers as a child, and i never realized how fun they are to just explore on my own. I think thats where so much critical thinking takes place. I am really nervous about the quizzes on monday. I'm still stumbly on the multiplication and division problem types and I have troubles explainng what I am trying to do in words for the addition and subtraction solution strategies. See I don't even think that made sense. Hopefully the more i look at them and thin about it the more I will understand. Its pretty intimidating knowing that kids can think, solve, and explain thier word problems, and im having trouble with it. Makes one Ponder!!!!!!!

quiz day

Today was quiz day!!!!

It wasn't as bad as I had thought. I am getting nervous however for the multiplication and division since i am only just grasping the addition and subtraction, but hopefully it will come to me soon. Monday was very interesting as I didn't know the two classes were so different. Dr. Shih gave us the problem and we went next door to solve it, we found our selves talking almost gibbrish to the other class as they had no clue what we were saying. Ex result unknown etc. I feel that being in Dr. Shihs class, i will be more prepared for the classroom more so than the other class. It was interesting though to hear their view points of the problems. I can't wait till tomorrow to get my quiz back, even though i know i missed one. I could kick myself for that one. I knew it and I talked myself out of it. Hate it when that happens!!! But we'll see tomorrow!

The cupcake was delicious by the way!!!

math puzzle

Class was very intriguing on Monday.  We worked on the math puzzle for a long time, and every moment was filled with frustration. Figuring out this puzzle was fun but at times, it hurt my head. I was thrilled to know that I at least got some of it right and was even more thrilled how close i was in labeling the left side with actions. I had the actions wrong, but i was kinda close at least. I have never had a math class that grabbed my attention as much as this one. Ive never had to think about thinking before. I found my self at times having to take a breathe and a step back in order to recollect myself again. I can't wait till Wednesday to find out the rest of the puzzle.