Senin, 10 Juni 2013

Notes for Mathematics Education Class



If we can feel it, actually this lesson have some notes, not only for now, but also for the future. In the future, we will be mathematics teacher, this lesson is english for mathematics. It is important for teacher to understand english. English is in order to able to communicate. Mathematics education is not only ‘mathematics’ and ‘education’, but also all of the aspects, factors, and component, such as teacher, student, curriculum, etc.
The reflection purpose is to improve our ability, to express the idea and writing. Learning is continue, anytime and everywhere. The optimal lesson is a lesson under comfortable situation, without pressure. It is normal for feel afraid in some situation, but we should solve the afraid problem.
Everything in this world have dimensions. Water have dimension, to become air or ice. Knowledge also have dimension, high level knowledge and low level knowledge. Mathematics for university are formal mathematics or pure mathematics. But, mathematics for children have different meaning, mathematics are activity. Many in this world didn’t have definition. We didn’t know the definition of love, height, far, and others. Just narrow minded people who always want to define everything. So, mathematics for children didn’t have definition. Mathematics for children (school mathematics) are activity to search the pattern, solve the problem, investigate, and communicate.
We can’t define the definition of the lenght, but we understand the concept, because that is intuition. The problem in school mathematics lesson started from older people, the teacher who didn’t understand. Children is innocent. Children just follow the people who have power.
The easiest way to learn language is copying, listening video or audio. The lecturer problem is similiar with teacher problem, how to facilitate the student needs to learn. Traditional method can’t used in the lesson. Nowadays, there are internet and website. Although the lecturer can’t teach in the class, the student still can learn from website.