Session Five of EDU 330 Elementary Mathematics

26th August  2011

         Thanks God it was the fifth day of our Mathematics class! On this session, we started  with  lesson  17.

      Grouping  Situation  :      6 / 2 = 3  

  1/ 1/4 =  4  ,   3/4 / 1/4 = 3

    Note:        a/b / x/y= a/x/b/y

   In lesson 18, Dr.Yeap introduced a word problem  

                

  Spiral  Approach :  Get  encounter  same  ideas  again  and  again......

  Bloom's Taxonomy:  Describe  the  cognitive  levels  

                                                  ( knowledge, comprehension,  application,  synthesis ,  evaluation)

  Knowledge  

     What  is  the  value of  5/7- 1/2

Comprehension 

      Is  the word problem

  Lesson  19  :  Making  squares  out of  the  dot

       

In  lesson 20,   is  a  continuation of the shapes  in connecting to the dot.  There  was  a  theory by  George  Pick other  known  as  "Pick  Theory"  which is  the  area  of  figure is related to the dots on the side  and inside.

Things  to  remember..... 

• There are five transformation movement of  shapes  ( translate, reflect, rotate, stretch,shear)
• Polygons  is  a close figure
• There are symbols in  comparing the are of square( units2, cm2,m2)
• The five  uses of number ( cardinal, nominal, measurement, ordinal, represent proportion)

In lesson 21,  we covered  on  the  data representation  which  is  making graphs.  There  are  different  types of  graphs ( picture graph, bar graph, line graph, circle graph, pie graph)

 

 The  last  lesson was on the  Model  Method

   Example:  3/7 of the apples in a box are red apples . The  rest  are green apples.

                      There  are  24 green  apples    

                      4 units = 24 apples

                      1 unit   = 6 apples

                      24/4 = 6