Archive for the ‘Teaching Maths’ Category
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
In learning of maths, as with learning of other subjects, we need to understand our learning styles. The styles are namely, visual, auditory and kinesthetic.
Each of us has one particular dominant style. Knowing which one will thus serve us good. However, the learning style itself is still not enough, we need ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
Making mistakes during maths learning is a common step to mastery of its concept.
This is possible, provided the learners pick up the error made and understand them through detailed analysis.
I came across an error that puzzled me for quite some time.
The error made: Inverting y = 2x + (1/x) became ...
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Mathematics is a subject that translates in a language that is unique.
Though the questions and explanations may come in the normal English or any equivalent first language, mathematics still consists of symbols, appreviations, variables and mathematical operators, besides the numerous expressions or equations.
Learning and teaching mathematics, thus, become a chore ...
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Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
Visually mathematics consists of numbers, symbols and equations. Teaching mathematics needs patience as well as learning it. However, I recently met a case that provides a twist to my mathematics teaching method.
The special case involved a young girl doing assignment on simple multiplication. Her head was real down, close to ...
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
One of the most emotional element in a human is pleasure. If any thing is driven by pleasure, then it reduces resistance towards it.
With this knowledge, teaching and learning math can be made less strenuous with the introduction of pleasure in its process.
Fun math with exciting interactive activities can be ...
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Sunday, November 25th, 2007
Maths is interesting and fun. We can also be creative through being able to solve or answer challenging maths questions. The approach to solving the problems decides how effective we can be trained for creativity.
An example is explained below.
Determine whether the expression 62x - 22x can be divided by 4.
We ...
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