Last Post for Celebrating this Wonderful Course and Wonderful Group of People

Thank you Susan and everyone in this course who supported me and enlightened many dimensions in my life and in Math Education! 💖

I feel so graceful to learn and collaborate with such an amazing team and hear so many insightful ideas and valuable experiences during this course! 💛



[Stop 1] I learnt the importance to be a critical thinker 
There were many moments to recall during this semester, which facilitated my thinking to be more critical and analytical.

1) the definition of FIRST language: reduced my stereotype and pushed my fixed mind to think of language as an ongoing conversation, and influenced by home and surrounding environment; to be more careful to giving definition, and avoid defining arbitrarily from our own perspective.

2) foster learning of immigrant students by learning their languages, rather than stay put and wish students to grow by themselves

3) hold different points and contradiction in ideas are okay!

4) differences of emphasis in curriculum: it was very interesting to see that estimation consisted a big part in math learning

[Stop 2] An eye-opening learning experience to look at Math Education in such broad dimension  

1) The creative standing point of looking at math from the perspective of Arts and interpreting mathematics from Gestures and our Body

2) Labyrinth and orchard garden learning experience: I started to step outside my comfort zone and think beyond exam-oriented view that we should make math more fun and hands-on! (feel a little bit sad for my childhood, because I hated math when it was all about repetition and memorization)

3) the lecture of gesture: sparked my ideas that people see math so differently, rigid instruction would ruin curiosity and imagination, which are the treasure of individual and should be reserved since young age

[Stop 3] I've heard wonderful stories and researches from a good mix of educators from diverse teaching and learning backgrounds 

1) The ideas from my reading group usually rain on my ‘dry’ mindset

2) Thank you Susan for inviting such great and intelligent panel. I really enjoy reading Hewitt's work where he introduced Arbitrary and Awareness. I felt very fresh and clear-minded when he explained his ideas of realm of awareness derived from his valuable teaching experience and extracted from his math learning.


Lastly, thank you Susan for giving tremendous support to me along the way. I really appreciated your honest comments and I will keep improving my writing.


Thank you everyone for bringing so many tasty snacks and I become a veggie (sweet pea) lover since week 3!!! :D