FINAL REFLECTION

Hello everyone!

As this entry will be my last that I’m going to write for a long time, I would like to share with you my improvement of knowledge about this subject and how it has helped me to realise the importance of teaching measurement in a natural and meaningful way.

What I want to mean is that I have learned that teachers should find and use different methods and techniques strategies in order to give children the opportunity to measure by having a curiosity about everything that surrounds them. One of the most important concepts that I have learned and what learners do not develop effectively is the estimation.

But, why does this concept is important? There is a simple reason, the development of the ability of estimation is crucial because when children want to express a result allow them to detect some mistakes which the teacher can know how the understanding of the students is.

In general, the objective of teaching measure is the discovery of the necessity of the measure, understanding that measure means to compare with others and that measure is depended by the chosen unity and not the magnitude that we use in order to measure.

Another important fact that I would like to emphasise is the importance of using resources and manipulative materials because will help children to understand better the concepts as well as it will increase progressively their motivation to want to learn and explore by themselves.

Finally, I consider that teachers have an important role in the teaching of Primary Education, they should create situations in which young learners can reflect and think critically about their surroundings.

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