Visual Learning VS. Kinesthetic Learning

       Everyone learns differently some learn better some ways better than others. When it comes to math it would be better and easier to do it if it was to become more Kinesthetic. For me I learn better this way because its uses hands on. If there was to be ways that when it comes to problems for them to have some kind of an object that could help to see how the problem is done and have a better understanding. For some it can be harder to be able to learn from what a teacher is saying and going over in front of the class. When this is going on in a math class it is going to be much easier for a student to start to daydream and no longer be paying any attention to what is being said and then they will not know what to do for the homework or even a test. There have been many times that I was sitting in a math class in high school and I had completely zoned out because all the teacher was doing was talking and lecturing in the class. I had an understanding of how to do the work but it was still too boring. The class was algebra and I do not know how you can make that class more interesting by bring things that are hands on into it but it can still make it much better and possibly get the students to become more involved into learning the subject and not falling asleep as it is being taught.

As I have been sitting through my math class and we have been going over ways of teaching the students how to do fractions and integers. There are hands on ways to make it easier for the elementary students to learn. With the methods for fractions it did make it easier for me to be able to understand fractions better than before. Even the method of red and black chips for integers is an interesting way to teach integers. When I was at that age level I do not really remember learning that method to do integers. I keep having the feeling that all of my teachers I had when it came to math liked to just stand in front of the class, talk, and go over handouts that they would give us and never really go very far into it and make sure we had an understanding of how to do it.