Introduction to Creative Math

I am so excited to be making my first professional blog! This blog will include my thoughts and experiences as my first time doing Student Observation. I read an article on teaching Math creatively. This article basically opened me up to a whole new way of thinking about how to teach Math. Most people have an "oh no" reaction when I say that I'm majoring in Math. This makes me think that they probably had a bad experience in school while learning Math that makes them not like it so much. My take on this is to find a way to make Math fun and exciting, make students want to go to Math class. I know that personally I had a really bad eighth grade experience in Pre-Algebra. I had a horrible teacher that did not care about if we were learning or not, he wanted to stick to his schedule and never offered outside help. My goal is to change my student’s way of thinking, actually make them care about Math and see that it can be enjoyable. Hopefully when I become a teacher, my students leave my feeling differently than when they walked into it on the first day.