I was very unsure how to proceed with the problem of counting the grains of sand. It was not my usual Math lesson where we copy from the board and do the problems in the text book that was associated with said problem. I'm just so used to having the teachers give me the problems and say "Here, use this formula and the answer is in the back of the book."
So I was completely lost on how to figure out the problem the Professor asked of us. What exactly was she looking for? What was the answer? What was the formula? This is the mind set that I have been taught about Math. There is always a right answer, wrong answer and a formula that will solve the problem. But doing this problem and writing down ideas about how to figure out the answer was completely liberating. Being stuck in one frame of mind just made me realize what we can do as teachers to help students break free of this mind jail.
It was nice to finally see that Math can be taught differently just as Language arts or Art can be.
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