Math ABQ 7/8 Activity 1 (M1)

I am completing an AQ course online with a university and will be posting my work up here to help me keep track and conduct further personal developments in my work and understandings of the course materials. Enjoy or comment for more information.

"Your First Post – Introduce Yourself: 

Introduce yourself:

    Tell us a bit about yourself.  Your introductory post may include, but is not limited to, the following:

• Your name and teaching assignment
• The length of time you have been teaching
• Why you are taking this course
• What you hope to learn/gain by the end of the course and any specific areas that you would like this course to address
• Your greatest success(es) in teaching math
• Your greatest challenge(s) in teaching math
• If you wish, your interests, activities, etc., within or outside of your work in education"

My name is Carmelo Bono, I have been teaching in China for a number of years (this is my fifth) and generally teach English, as well as a few other things. I do however expect that if I am able to continually improve my understandings of Math in the classroom, I can take my particular skill set and acquire a depth of understanding that will allow me to utilize it in the classroom. In teaching Math, my greatest success so far was a lesson in teaching probabilities, mean, median and mode. It was excellent because I had all the students participating in a class activity using tokens they enjoyed talking about as they worked; they also found the activity entertaining as it was set up for them that when they came in from recess they were instructed to reach beneath their seats (as the resources were taped there) and acquire their tokens for the game. Students had a lot of fun and although there was some set up, it was worth it.

I feel that my interests are in innovation and overcoming challenges (personal and professional). It seems to me that with the way teachers are able to adapt society, and technology into the classroom that there are many opportunities for teachers to create quality learning moments in Math because it is a very functional and tangible idea in everyday life.