... too much, though. I was pretty much your basic, well-rounded, A-B student. And I was happy in the comfortable world of understanding. Then I got into high school and it got more complex. Geometry, ok. Makes sense for the most part. Algebra? We're getting into way too many letters and not enough numbers. By the time they got to ... proofs and theorems, I'd been kicked off the "bus of understanding- and was struggling behind on the "bicycle for mathematical delinquents-. To make matters worse, it was at that point that the ... in there. But, as I learned, they want well-rounded teachers...

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... the need for teachers to be aware of individual learning rates and styles. Van Hieles Dutch educators who taught math for a number of years and discovered students had difficulty understanding geometry. They saw there are five levels a student must past through. 5 levels Visualization Their global appearance and not their property recognize shapes. Analysis Here students observe the component parts of figures ... explain relationships. Informal dedication Here they are able to deduce the properties of figures and express inter relationships, both within and between figures. Formal deduc...

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... two together. "People who have conducted the Mozart effect experiment have suggested that spatial-temporal reasoning is crucial in math. The areas of math that require spatial-temporal reasoning are geometry and certain aspects of calculus, which require transformations of images in space and time."" (Sommer 3) Although in higher mathematics, "researchers have noticed that the ability to write mathematical ... proofs is also associated with spatial-temporal reasoning."" (Sommer 3) This is said to be true because "proof writing is a task that requires intuitive sense of natural sequences...

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