FRACTION
Another day of a 'mind boggling' session with fraction.
- In 1 how many ¼ are there? (1 ÷ ¼ = 4)
- In ¾ how many fourth are there? (¾ ÷ ¼ =3)
- In ¾ how many ½ are there? (¾ ÷ ½ = 1 ½)
- Tom has ½ liter of orange juice. He needs 5/7 litres of orange juice. How more orange juice does he need?
I understand better when Dr. Yeap represents it with a model.
BLOOMS TAXONOMY
I learned about Blooms Taxonomy, a cognitive process that describes different level of learning and understanding – KCA- Knowledge, Comprehension and Application. The teacher could assess the children’s understanding of the topic based on their knowledge, comprehension and application.
Find out more on this website http://www.kurwongbss.eq.edu.au/thinking/Bloom/blooms.htm
PICK’S THEOREM
The area of the figure is related to the dots!
To find the area of the figure was another interesting activity that Dr Yeap gave us. He introduced the Pick’s Theorem in calculating the area of simple polygons. It was amazing to see the students’ calculation of the area of different shapes. It was found that the area of the figure is related to the dots!
Click on the link to find out more! http://www.geometer.org/mathcircles/pick.pdf
SPIRAL APPROACH
Dr Yeap told us that Singapore
GRAPHS
We did Graphing using the clothes peg we got. Our group did a line graph that Mr Yeap said was not right, as it did not give a right representation. I learned different types of graphs; bar graph, pie graph and picture graph. Something new that I learned about graph is that when doing the bar graph the width must be equal.
Dr Yeap opened a whole new world of Maths to me. He went through a process to make us understand the word problems, slowly pulling it apart and then putting it together. He made us see the connection.
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