Reflective Paper

MTH 213

Reflective Paper

In this Mathematics for Elementary Educators I course, it teaches me many concepts that a professional mathematics teacher should possess while teaching elementary students. The concepts has influences my own ideas and philosophy of teaching. In this reflection paper, I will also summarize the major mathematical concepts, explaining how the learning concepts are relevant to the characteristics of a professional mathematics teacher.

During this five week course, there were five major concepts that were being discussed. I think that the most important concepts that were being discussed are the ones that we learn in the first week of class. In week one, we learn about the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) that defines the six...