Today's class focussed on mental math and different strategies that surround adding and subtracting numbers mentally. The term mental math is completely unappealing to me - but today helped change my point of view! I enjoyed the activity at the start of class involving the SmartBoard and it being a useful tool to get everyone out of their seats and involved in a mental math activity. I also liked how today's class incorporated a variety of lessons and teaching strategies about mental math as well as gave us the opportunity to search through the curriculum guides on our own and find specific strategies. I thought that the activities from class were fun and informative as I had never seen or heard of some of the ways to apply mental math in a classroom.