The second article I reviewed was found in the Teaching Children Mathematics journal. The main focus of the article was to express to its readers that the use of cognates while teaching can give all students more opportunities to learn. Students that have prior schooling in their native language before beginning their schooling in the United States could benefit from the cognate teaching approach. This approach could prove to be tricky because there are both friendly cognates which are the useful ones, and then there are false cognates that mean two different things in their languages.
If found this article interesting because it is material that is new to me. I have never heard of the cognate teaching approach, but from the sounds of this article, I can see this being a good teaching tool to know. I feel that I would be better prepared to deal with the diversity of my students and help them learn to their full potential. Having the ability to relate to the whole spectrum of my students will be important when I am faced with multiple races and backgrounds in my classroom.
Gómez, C. L. (2010). Teaching with Cognates. Teaching Children Mathematics, Volume 16, Issue 8, Page 470 retrieved from:
http://www.nctm.org/eresources/article_summary.asp?from=B&uri=TCM2010-04-470a
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