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1.1 The Learning Process Methodology
Purpose The role this topic plays in quantitative reasoning
Most people in our society have a very difficult time when it comes to constructing mathematical
knowledge. The majority of us have been trained to see knowledge as information such as a phone
number, address, or road sign. This informational-type knowledge can be written or memorized.
The goal of this activity is to help you appreciate that there are higher levels of knowledge beyond
informational (memorized) knowledge. These other levels include teachable knowledge where you
know something so well that you can teach others how to comprehend, understand, and produce meaning
with it. Additional value of knowledge is realized as it is contextualized (used in specific contexts),
generalized (used in general outside of a single context) and finally transferred to important parts of
your life (applied across different contexts). The next level of knowledge is where strong performers
differentiate themselves from others because of their level of working expertise and problem solving
abilities.
During the process of learning how to learn and becoming a master learner, it is important that you
are able to build the metacognition of how you learn—that is, understand your learning as a process
in itself over which you have control and about which you can think and talk. This experience will
help you tap into the extensive educational research focused on how people learn and what practices
can help improve learning. In pursuit of this goal, this experience offers you a model of the learning
process called the Learning Process Methodology (LPM), the Levels of Learner Knowledge (which
will help you measure your level of learning), and a Learning Journal tool to document learning. The
Classification of Learning Skills will be a critical resource that you should call upon as needed.
Learning Goals What you should learn while completing this activity
1. Gain an understanding of the Learning Process Methodology and how it can be used to strengthen
learning performance
2. Learn to differentiate levels of learning based on the Levels of Learner Knowledge.
3. Connect the steps of the Learning Process Methodology to the levels of learner knowledge
4. Value the importance of performing the steps of the Learning Process Methodology in sequence
5. Make the connections between specific learning skills and the learning proce
Discovery Finding out for yourself
What means do you currently use to produce new mathematical knowledge that you can either teach
others to understand or to apply to effectively solve problems? Think about it this way:
●What are the things do you to prepare and organize yourself for learning mathematics?
●What do you do to produce understanding and meaning?
●How do you take your understanding and do something valuable with it?