week5 reflection

In this week, the lesson was focused on Mathematics. Even though it’s not my major, it was related to my major and there are some teaching methods can be used in teaching English. The best way for students to learn mathematics is to experience problems that challenge mathematics, and the thought, habits of mind and actions associated with trying to solve them. I think as math, English should be also experience grammar problems and need to habit to speak English to improve. As math teaching should be both lecturing and problem solving, English also need to be like that. When I learn basic English, especially in grammar, my teacher lectured a lot, but at the same time, she gave me a lot of problems in grammar. Through solving those problems, I could feel and know the differences between grammar structure and I think through that process, I learned English faster compare to my friends who only studied lecturing. I liked the activity that we did for the first class, which were to calculate the percentage of coffee and the color balls thing. It was easy enough to handle, but I didn’t like the activity that we did for the second meeting for this week. It was really hard. At the same time, I was disappointed to myself because, actually I could solve that problem when I was in high school. Since I entered university, I’ve never studied math except for STATLIT and MATAPRE. I forgot all the methods and they ways to solve problems. It was kind a shock for me. By the way, I had fun to solve math problems because it's been a long time to solve math.