Reflection On Math Diagnosis

Math Diagnosis

Kenique Walker-Reflection

I am a third year student-teacher at the Mico University College perusing my degree in Mathematics Education. Has a third year student I am required to complete a course called Math Diagnosis and Intervention at the Primary Level. In this course my lecturer Mrs. Baker-Gibson gave an assignment which required me to work in group of four to identify a student at the secondary level, design and administer a survey test to gather demographical, medical, educational information, mathematics competences and weaknesses of the student, teacher and parent of the student. All of that was done, the second part of the assignment is where I am required to analyze the Probe test that was completed by the student and

Throughout the teaching process or remediation process I was excited knowing that I was assisting the student to build a conceptual understanding of Fraction. However, during the completion of the assignment I felt like I was in a state of confusion and frustration. These feelings arose from the fact that examinations were right at hand and course work for different assignments were incomplete. In the accomplishment of this assignment there were many challenges faced. First, I had difficulties selecting a learning. Secondly, creating a questionnaire for the learner, teacher and parent, for whom we had tried to obtain and structure questions for demography, educational, emotional and medical background of each person. Thirdly, I encountered difficulties interviewing the teacher and parent of the learner, because we had to find a time that was convenient to the parent and teacher of the learner. Fourthly, there was also a challenge finding the time that was convenient for the student-teachers and the student to execute the remediation process. All of this leave me confused as to what to do to complete this assignment to the best of my ability. I was dissatisfied with myself as I knew that I should have managed my time more wisely in order to get the assignment completed in a timely

It has helped to raise my level of self-confident. In the future I do intent to teach so that students can have a conceptual and procedural understanding of math concepts. Likewise to make mathematics teaching and learning fun for students. I would use a different approach to help students to construct their own learning. Jerome Bruner (1966) stated that learning is an active process in which students construct their own understanding of a topic base on previous knowledge. I believe in doing this, students will understand and appreciate the topic more, leaving less or perhaps no students with misconceptions. I would use examples based on real life situations to teach and activate students’ prior knowledge. I would also have students interacting with the real world or