I have to say, I really enjoyed the video presentation on Monday. It is such a simple way of presenting so many different aspects of math that some students find so difficult to grasp. I really appreciated the fact that the tapping method can illustrate many so things like sequences of numbers, the properties of counting, the number line and its properties, positive and negative numbers, algebra, skip counting, etc...the list can go on and on. It is such a versatile way of reaching students at any level of mathematics, not just grade eight students trying to learn positive and negative numbers. I also really liked how the group dynamic worked with this method. By the end almost all, if not all, of the students were participating and correcting themselves without fear of being laughed at. There was less pressure for them to be perfect right away and if they didn't get something right off the bat that was okay. There were encouraged to work as a team. It was an us versus the math kind of thing and the math wasn't portrayed as something beyond their scope of ability.
One question I have is how can this type of method be moved into to more complicated fields, like geometry or trigonometry? How can we make this type of method work just as well in Calculus?
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