This is a course for prospective elementary and middle school teachers about how children learn mathematics and how to create positive, developmentally- appropriate mathematics instruction. If this is the case, consider this course an opportunity to break the cycle of negative, disempowering mathematics teaching. Mathematics can be an intellectual adventure, a powerful tool, and a creative experience for children. As a teacher, you can make it so. Some of you may have had mathematics courses that were based on the transmission, or absorption, view of teaching and learning.
Teaching consists of transmitting sets of established facts, skills, and concepts to students.
I do not accept this view. I am a constructivist. Constructivists believe that knowledge is actively created or invented by the person, not passively received from the environment. No one true reality exists, only individual interpretations of the world. These interpretations are shaped by experience and social interactions.