Journal Article- Calculus in Middle Schools?

SUMMARY
This article was all about how calculus can be seen throughout all different grade levels. Calculus can often scare students, and make them dislike math because they see it as too challenging. Students do not understand however that the work they are doing at a middle school level directly correlates to work that is done at a high school or even college level. This article provided many examples to teaching students calculus. Such examples include looking at various representations of a problem and also creating a story about how certain graphs provided to the students go together. The article also emphasized that middle school is a very important time to prepare students for higher level mathematics. In conclusion, as teachers at any level we want to provide foundations for our students to be able to grow and prosper. We want to provide opportunities that cause our students to think and have to work hard. However, we do not want to scare our students.

APPLICATION
I do not want my students be afraid of math. I need to make sure that I provide my students with a solid foundation of math during the elementary level so that by the time they get to middle school so that they are not overwhelmed and scared. In the elementary school level you want your students to be familiar with the algebraic way of thinking. Than as a middle school teacher we will need to provide our students a foundation on of calculus to get them ready for high school. Middle school is were as a teacher you want to provide the foundation of calculus for your students for future learning. A good way to teach students about calculus is to provide them with about five graphs. Have your students write a story to explain the graphs and how they fit together. This well help students gain understanding. As a teacher I will want to show my students the connection with what there doing to actual problems that can be found in their mathematics textbook. I want to prepare my students so that they can actually take the higher, more advanced math classes and not be scared away.