My Thoughts in LLED 3530

Website:  https://mathgeekmama.com/using-literacy-strategies-to-teach-math/ Math Geek Mama is a resource blog created by a fellow math teacher whose uploaded many strategies, tips, games, and etc. that would help other math teachers in the classroom. Bethany, the creator of this website, included many useful resources for all grade levels (k-12) and tried to make the website very user friendly, so it is very easy to navigate around the website. In particular, I linked to the page where she talks about literacy strategies that can be used to teach math and I feel like this connects to what we have been talking about in class, such as trying to make connections with the real world or using prior knowledge/schema when introducing math concepts. So, I thought this is a nice resource that gives ideas and explains strategies that can be applied in the future when teaching students. Word Count: 141

Chapter 2 of Subject Matters made me really think about how people read and understand text. I just loved how the author compared reading to driving. I assume that we would never associate the two, but when I really thought about it and read the texts, it made me really think about my reading skills and how I use many skills unconsciously. Without it being pointed out, I wouldn't think anybody would really think about the different skills they use or actually reflect on how they read so it was interesting to think about it. I do believe, just like driving we learn to start slowly and is steady on our readings. However, the more we read and improve our reading skills, we develop more skills and start to do it without even thinking about it. As described in the text, we learn to multitask, and although one may think understanding a passage is extremely challenging, like the first time driving, if they take it slow and read through the text, they soon realize it's not a prob...