I must admit, it isn't often that I truly look forward to reading for classes, however each week I truly look forward to our math readings because they have completely opened my eyes up to math thinking and understanding. On the other hand, I am now very scared to teach math, because I am starting to think that it is the most challenging subject to teach. Throughout my math education I have had some wonderful teachers and some not so good teachers. My wonderful teachers came in high school and college and therefore all throughout elementary and middle school math was a challenge. I was pretty good at math and scored well on homework and tests, but when it came to understanding what I was doing or why my answers were correct, I could not tell you. I made many mistakes, but did not learn from those. I loved the Eggleton and Moldavan article about the value of mistakes and I thought it was so interesting about the father that said he had two sons in two different learning environments. The one son who had a traditional atmosphere (like myself) would say "I don't get it!" where as the other son who had learned math through discovery and exploration would say "I don't get it yet!" I know that I will definitely have to explore how to allow my students to learn from there mistakes because I do not want my future students to give the correct answers without understanding and if they give an incorrect answer I want to work on understanding their logic, for instance in chapter 3 of DMI when the class was going through the days chart and one student responded that after 59 came fifty-ten. Even though this is not the correct answer I see his logic behind his answer. Most kids know how to count from 1-10 and therefore why when they get to 59 should it not be fifty-ten. I see this child's logic, but as an aspiring teacher how would you fix this child's reasoning? Would you just let him explore his answer and discover that it is really 60? There is still a lot I need to learn about teaching math, but these readings are definitely providing me with more insight.