My Mathematics Philosophy

My Mathematics Philosophy
<Tab/>How did you get that answer? Why? Can you get the same answer another way? These are important questions for all math educators to ask. I believe that encouraging autonomy is one of the most important things that a teacher can do. According to Piaget, the aim of education must be to develop the child's autonomy, which is indissociably social, moral, and intellectual (Kamii, 21). Without autonomous learners, our classrooms would be made up of memorization of formulas and procedures, which is detrimental and can short circuit learning (Reynolds,…