Unit Planning Reflection

The biggest takeaway that I got from building my unit plan was units highly focus on the goals and objectives and accomplishing those while incorporating hands on activities and tying everything to the students lives and likes can be difficult. There are many ways to connect math to students everyday lives, however, incorporating a lot of hands on activities in math was difficult for me. There are many hands on activities that can be done, however, this would require a lot of supplies and money which is not always possible to get. I made a lot of connections between language demands and the actual math that was being taught. At first when I looked at language demands I thought that this is something that I would struggle with because math is about procedures and what the students are writing. However, as I dove deeper into my unit plan I realized what a huge role language demands played in this math unit. Even though it is important that students know the mathematical procedures of how to solve a problem, it is equally important that they can explain their thinking and justify the answers that they came up with. For people next semester working on this project, I would tell them to pick a unit that interests them a lot and have fun with it. This assignment was really fun to create with a unit that was very interesting and fun for me and that I am excited to teach in the future!