What did you learn?
I thought the resources were totally awesome. It was amazing how cheap so many of these books were. I am going to order a bunch of them. I also really liked the last activity with measuring because it made me think about how arbitrary our measuring systems are.
What questions do you still have?
I don’t have any questions right now… I will be thinking about this during the week and likely come up with some later.
How can it apply to classroom practice?
This is making me think a lot about how valuable it might be to talk with my students about where mathematical terms come from. Sometimes they’re arbitrary, and sometimes they’re not. When they’re not, I think knowing why we do things the way we do and what they mean can help them better understand what the math is about.
