“I find that the ‘textbook approach’ is a thing
of the past. Rather than just opening the book
in order to teach the next lesson and then pro
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ceeding to do a page of problems, I now have
many resources I draw from, including several
books, ideas from other teachers, and perhaps
more importantly, the students themselves....I
have learned perhaps to think of mathematical
concepts at a higher level as we participated in
classwork ourselves....Because I have given
greater thought to the reasoning of some things
(for example, borrowing in subtraction), I feel I
now understand some of these concepts much
better myself....I find myself asking different
kinds of questions...And, perhaps most impor
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tantly, I find math much more fun!”