tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10627845817128731112024-02-08T10:27:16.831-08:00V's Maths BlogAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07461327176349082088noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062784581712873111.post-21381272835096443472013-09-28T16:00:00.000-07:002013-09-30T02:55:04.451-07:00Salute to Math<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "KG Primary Penmanship 2"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I
like this game “Salute”. Not only was entertaining, it taught me to enjoy multiplication. </span></b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Uma and Punitha</span></td></tr>
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<b style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: 'KG Primary Penmanship 2'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Through this game, </span></b><b style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "KG Primary Penmanship 2"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">children will be able to learn multiplication the easy way. They do
not have to get stress by </span></b><span style="font-family: KG Primary Penmanship 2; font-size: large;"><b><span style="line-height: 36px;">memorizing</span><span style="line-height: 27px;">.</span></b></span><b style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "KG Primary Penmanship 2"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "KG Primary Penmanship 2"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I
learnt that for children to understand Maths, we have to develop their Maths
Intelligence.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: "KG Primary Penmanship 2"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“To find solutions to
a Maths problem, there are many methods.”</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "KG Primary Penmanship 2"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Like what Dr Yeap quotes:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07461327176349082088noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062784581712873111.post-33770078325441132532013-09-27T00:30:00.000-07:002013-09-29T09:18:10.186-07:00 Maths at work on a Friday Nite<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: 'KG Primary Penmanship 2'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">The trips to the museum was very enlightening on a Friday night. It was amazing to see Maths concept in the artworks. It was a good learning experience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "KG Primary Penmanship 2"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">When we were lead to the Problem 18:
Make squares. My team mate and I manage to make squares with 1 piece, 2, 3, 4,
5 7 pieces but could not manage to make a square with 6 pieces.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "KG Primary Penmanship 2"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The concept of area, geometry and
counting was integrated in this lesson.
It also taught me that “anything you do, if I do it I will never forget
it". </span><span style="font-family: 'KG Primary Penmanship 2'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">Bruner, Piaget and Vygotsky seem to be
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<u><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "KG Primary Penmanship 2"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">Bruner<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: "KG Primary Penmanship 2"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Child
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<u><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "KG Primary Penmanship 2"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">Vygotsky<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07461327176349082088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062784581712873111.post-37676720677395707562013-09-26T07:49:00.000-07:002013-09-28T08:22:09.514-07:00Read my mind...<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: 'KG Primary Penmanship 2'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"> We started class with a “mind reading”
game. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'KG Primary Penmanship 2'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The game was attention-grabbing. The learning outcome children will be able:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "KG Primary Penmanship 2"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I agree with Prof Yeap's thought that to teach Maths the teacher’s role is very
important. During my maths era, my
teachers taught multiplication not using Bruner Theory </span><span style="font-family: "KG Primary Penmanship 2";">(if they had , I would have done
better). </span><span style="font-family: "KG Primary Penmanship 2"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> Most of the teachers
during my days in school were basically using their previous knowledge to teach
us Maths. Even today, I explain Maths to my children using my previous method. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "KG Primary Penmanship 2"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="color: magenta;">Something new</span></b> : I would like to say this sentence when I
am teaching my child next time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07461327176349082088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062784581712873111.post-13492025278097354202013-09-25T10:01:00.000-07:002013-09-25T10:01:12.583-07:00Fractions.. Fractions ... Fractions<span style="font-family: 'KG Primary Penmanship 2'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">I am a </span><span style="font-family: 'KG Primary Penmanship 2'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">FRACTIONS phobic. But today's lesson on fraction was mind boggling. As we used the piece of paper to draw it into equal
parts, I was able to have a better understanding of the concept of fractions. </span><span style="font-family: 'KG Primary Penmanship 2'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">When I was folding the paper into four equal parts
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<span style="font-family: "KG Primary Penmanship 2"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Today I understood
fraction better because:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'KG Primary Penmanship 2'; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">Something interesting I picked up as I am " in love" with fraction now.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07461327176349082088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062784581712873111.post-14439200183200869822013-09-24T22:35:00.001-07:002013-09-24T22:35:47.136-07:00 Day 2 : 1 ,2 ,3 Counting time<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: 'KG Primary Penmanship 2'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">Whenever, I teach my daughter Maths, she keeps making mistakes or not sure.. It's not her fault. My biggest mistake:I have been using the method of EXPLAINING to her </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">L</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "KG Primary Penmanship 2"; font-size: 18.0pt;">Explaining is not Good<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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behaviour </span><i><span style="font-family: "KG Primary Penmanship 2"; font-size: 12.0pt;">(I have to
start loving Maths</span></i><span style="font-family: "KG Primary Penmanship 2"; font-size: 12.0pt;">)</span><span style="font-family: "KG Primary Penmanship 2"; font-size: 18.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "KG Primary Penmanship 2"; font-size: 18.0pt;"> -I do ! , We do ! , You do !<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "KG Primary Penmanship 2"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Today’s class we had our brain cells working hard. I enjoyed the game we played with the beans. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'KG Primary Penmanship 2'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">First game: </span><span style="font-family: 'KG Primary Penmanship 2'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">I
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<b><span style="font-family: "KG Primary Penmanship 2"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">In our first day of class, I never thought Maths can
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<b><span style="font-family: "KG Primary Penmanship 2"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">The activities conducted by Dr Yeap were an eye
opener. The activity that I enjoyed most was the tangram. When my children got
a set of tangram puzzles as a Christmas present, I never thought there so much
history behind this puzzle. <o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "KG Primary Penmanship 2"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">Base on the activity, I learnt there was social
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learner, using the concrete materials was helpful.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "KG Primary Penmanship 2"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">We are facilitating Maths Week as children
need to experience mathematics as problem solvers, investigators, and
communicator by finding out what happens next by using mathematics to find out
things for themselves (prior knowledge) to what they do not already know.
(Build their new knowledge). Rather than trying to figure out what the teacher
wants them to do, children should need to understand that mathematics is about
reasoning: making connections about why something is the way it is and then
checking out those connections. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "KG Primary Penmanship 2"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I would like to the idea of practicing </span><span style="font-family: "KG Primary Penmanship 2"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">productive struggle to help children learn
mathematics. As children have the tools and prior knowledge to solve a problem,
they should not be given a problem that is out of reach, they will struggle
without being productive. Children should not also be given tasks that are
clear-cut and easy, if not they not be struggling with mathematical ideas. When
children know that struggle is expected as part of the process of doing
mathematics, they embrace the struggle and feel success when they reach a solution.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "KG Primary Penmanship 2"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Maths is everywhere<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "KG Primary Penmanship 2"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Children should be provided the
environment to understand that mathematics is about daily experiences: counting
the biscuits on the plate, using geometry to build their building in their
block corners, clarifying their reasoning by talking to their friends, by
listening to what they have to say, recording their experiences and their
thinking with words and visual aids such as with diagrams and pictures, and
with mathematical symbols.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "KG Primary Penmanship 2"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Rather than making the Math curriculum a
set of rote learning, mathematics should be used as a guide to make connections,
to see the relationships between mathematical ideas and experiencing mathematics
everywhere one looks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "KG Primary Penmanship 2"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“ Happy Maths Week” </span><b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: "KG Primary Penmanship 2"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "KG Primary Penmanship 2"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></b><b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "KG Primary Penmanship 2"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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