Project Based Learning

Project based learning is a great way to build motivation into the lesson for students to learn key concepts.  Experiencing hands-on activities allows students to explore, through various means, and work towards acquiring knowledge using prior knowledge as well as new skills to complete the task.  If students are working in groups on these tasks they will work on their comprehension by processing the information and trying to reason their views with others.  These activities are also great because it is an easy way to reference knowledge by talking about the experience.  I believe that this is a great experience to have in a math class because it allows the content to be more accessible.  I feel that it would be great to strive to incorporate at least one a semester in each class to begin with and then weave them in more and more.