Wanyi’s EDCP 342A Math Blog

I plan to introduce Chinese Paper Cutting in my micro-teaching lesson.

From the first sentence we knows that "my father's son" is the speaker. So, "that man's father is my father's son" can be converted to that man's father is me who is the speaker. So, that man is speaker's son. The way the speaker used to illustrate their relationship is not straight forward, which makes this problem difficult and interesting.

Letters from two of your (future) students in 2029 One loved your class! The other, not so much Then a couple of students on what you hope for and worry about as you embark on your teaching career Letter from a student who love my class: Dear Miss Li, I really enjoyed your class. The connections between math topics and real life that you brought to the class have shifted my point of view about mathematics and made me appreciated mathematic as a powerful subject in our life. I still remember the relational understanding and instrumental understanding that you were introduced to us. The process of relational learning was painful sometimes at the beginning but it is very helpful in my further mathematics study. The way you integrated history and art into math class has engaged me in mathematics learning. You are such a caring teacher who always created a supportive, positive and kind learning environment to us.   Letter from a student who did not love my ...

“The locker problem”: A school has 1,000 students and 1,000 locker. On the first day, all the lockers are open.   student #1 closes each locker student #2 opens each 2nd locker student #3 changes each 3rd locker student #4 changes each 4th locker student #5 ……………….5th locker After all 1,000 are done, which lockers are open/closed?why? Answer: Every door with a square number within 1000 (2^2 th, 3^2 th ....... 31^2 th, except 1^2) is closed, and others are open.

1. It makes me feel good when I finally figure out the answer to a challenging math problem. 2. The smiles on my students' faces when they find the solution makes me feel good. 3. I think the logic behind math is very charming and I am attracted to it. Math is organized and in order.  4. I met a very enthusiastic math professor at UBC who is a real model of teacher for me. 

Read the article written by Richard R. Skemp: Relational Understanding and Instrumental Understanding three things that made you "stop" as you read this piece, and why where you stand on the issue Skemp raises, and why. 1st stop: While reading the article, the example of instrumental understanding made me “stop”. The student asked why the area of rectangle is given by A = L x B. The teacher “explained” that the formula told to multiply the length by the breadth to get the area of rectangle. Then the student believed that he understood it because he always got the right answer. It remains me of my teaching experience as a 10th grade math teacher. The class I taught was an honour class. Students and parents very cared about the marks. So, at the beginning of my teaching, in order to make my class “efficient”, I presented the ideas straight forward, addressed the formulas, clearly showed them the procedures of problem solving, and then done some practice to maste...

Here I am from the UBC Teacher Education Program!