Overview
While not everyone is doing it yet, integrative thinking and integration are making their way into secondary mathematics classrooms. Consider your own experience in secondary mathematics, and introduce yourself to your classmates and professor by describing your experience.
- Were your secondary mathematics courses taught in isolation or integrated? What was positive and negative about this approach?
- Did you ever ask, “Why am I learning this? Where will I ever use this?” about a mathematics course or concept? If your answer is yes, which course or concept prompted the question? If your answer is no, what made mathematics meaningful to you?
- Of the secondary mathematics courses you took, which was the most beneficial to you and why? Which was the least beneficial and why?