My Philosophy of Teaching Mathematics first begins with wanting to have my students leave the classroom being knowledgeable in the many areas that will be taught in mathematics, and have my students excited about what they learned. Since my concentration is in the Elementary grade level, the topics range from counting and basic arithmetic, to number and operation concepts, geometry and measurement concepts, to function and algebra concepts and probability and data analysis concepts. These topics require much needed patience and a number of different teaching instructions. But the most important concept I want them to know is that I care about their confidence in the field of mathematics. As a teacher in general, I will strive for success and achievement from my students. In the world today, math is everywhere and is becoming more and more frequent. It is my obligation as an Elementary teacher when it comes to teaching mathematics in the classroom is to teach my students using enthusiasm, mounds of energy, motivation, easy to comprehend teaching methods, and have my lessons fun and enjoyable. By using a variety of methods and instruction, this will benefit my students in the best ways possible in life. It is not the most important part of any math question to find the answer but in fact how that student got the answer they got. This is where my teaching comes into play in the classroom and alerting my students that the voyage is much more rewarding then the discovery (Travers, K. .J., Pikaart, L., Suydam, M. N., & Runion, G. E. (1977).
Through my observations and my knowledge, I also have come to terms that students learn at different speeds as well as from different teaching methods and strategies. Mathematics has been known to be one of the hardest subjects students come across in school. Many have trouble with this subject and feel as though they may never understand how to get the correct answer. It is my job as an educator to learn my student’s strengths and weaknesses as well as likes and dislikes in math and then build my lessons and objectives off of those qualities. I want to allow my students to use different techniques and problem solving strategies to help accommodate them into learning how to show the steps of a problem (Travers, K. .J., Pikaart, L., Suydam, M. N., & Runion, G. E. (1977).
As many students grow throughout the school year, it is my obligation as a mathematics teacher to make sure that I assess and evaluate my student’s knowledge in multiple ways. This allows for each individual to have the best opportunity to explain how they came across that answer to a problem and what they truly understand from the topic(s). Finally, my Philosophy of Teaching in especially mathematics is to make sure learning is taken place in a fun and easy to comprehend learner friendly manner. After all, “learning is a function of the quality of the teaching (arapaho.nsuok.edu).”