Day 6- 17 August

Mathematics is an excellent vehicle for the development and improvement of a person’s intellectual ability in logical reasoning, spatial visualisation, analysis and abstract thought.

Task: Card Trick

Successful methods include arranging the cards in a row and moving cards which have been removed by moving them upwards and another method is to use drawing.

Implications for Instruction:

-          Working with teachers

-          Poker cards

-          Spelling the numbers

-          Challenging and understanding

-          Visuals (cut- out)

-          Prior knowledge

Task: Cut out figures from paper art

-          Find a pattern

-          Find similarities

-          Thinking routine (Harvard)

-          Simple to complex

What do you see?

-          Describe

-          Observe

-          Visual

What do you think?

-          Relationship

How do you wonder?

-          Reason

-          Infer

Story- telling:

Before reading- story express

-          Predict the story based on given words

-          Write predicted story in 5 to 10 lines

After reading- Circle strategy procedure

-          Retell story through pictures or text

Things I have learnt today?

-          Card trick

-          Paper art: Visualization and patterning

-          Story telling: Pattering and differentiation