Information on Quiz

During the course you will be given some quizes for you to demonstrate your learning of the course materials. These are 15-minute tasks to be done between 1800 and 1815. You must hand in your responses by 1815 for it to be graded. If you are late for classes, you will have to forgo the opportunity to attemp the quiz.

Some tasks are content based. Others are based on pedagogy.

Sample Quiz Items are available at http://mmepdpm.pbworks.com . Please request access the first time you log in. This site requires a password (created by yourself).

Here are the sample tasks for those who have difficuly accessing the site.

Content Type Task
Sally added 8 and 7 by thinking that 8 is 3 and 5. Thus, 3 and 7 is ten. Hence, 8 + 7 = 5 + 10 = 15.

Use Sally's Method to add 6 and 9.

Pedagogy Type Task
Miss Lim uses three types of materials to teach numbers to twenty (e.g. 18) - ice-cream sticks, 1-cent and 10-cent coins and base ten blocks.

Are these three unique materials or they can replace each other? Give your reason.

Welcome BSc 05 to EDU330 August 2011

Updated on 22 August 2011

Welcome BSc05. This is an update before we start today.
Please bring a new notebook / exercise book (any size) for use in this course.

You must have received your course information by now.

There is a pre-course task that has to be completed and the submission is via a blog. That has to be done before the course starts. Hence the 20 August 2011 deadline. Most of you have sent me the url for your own blog. I can see everyone's blog except Maslinda's.

However, throughout the course, there are also reflections that has to be done and these are, again, though the blog. The deadline to complete all reflections is 1 September 2011.

In the meantime, it is good to get your blog up and running - send me the link and your name (the one you prefer me to call you as well as your official name).

Many of you have sent me the url for your blogs and I have linked them to this blog. Please complete the pre-course reading and task by the deadline 20 August.

See you in class. Watch this space for all forms of communication related to the course.

In the first session, we will look at what cosntitutes mathematics and how children learn it - we will use content in whole numbers. The third session will be taken by a guest lecturer Peggy Foo who will share with you the idea of lesson study and examples of lessons in kindergaten used in lesson study. Fractions will be covered in Session 2 and Session 4.

Make Up Work for Absentees

for those who missed more than one hour of each day's class please complete make-up work as part of the requirement of the course.

i have posted points from various lessons and make suggestions as to what you can do. please email me if you are unsure.

please submit these pieces together with your final assignment.

Problem 10

Today we solved a problem - draw on a geoboard paper a polygon with four dots on the sides of the polygon. Many gave quadrilaterals. Students were encouraged to draw figures other than quadrilaterals.

After finding the area of a few figures, a conjecture was made - figures with fours dots on the sides and none inside has an area of one.

This led to a discussion on instructional model for teaching problem solving.

Growing Plants

The groups did the planning on Day 2. On Day 3, they put into action their plan. And see the results next Monday.

This was a partial discssion of a problem solve din class today - a problem with insufficient (and useless) information.

Alice, Bob and Cheryl form a line to buy tickets.
The shortest is not first an the tallest is not last.
The boy is not the oldest and the youngest is a girl.
The oldest is not first in the line.

What are their positions in the line?

If there is no definite answer, are you able to work out all the possibilities?

Make-Up Work for Lesson 2

If you are absent for part of or the entire of Lesson 2, please complete Lesson 1 Reflection and submit it asap.

Also submit the solutions to the five problems done in class. make a list of problem-solving heuristics and illustrate three of them with examples. Submit this together with your Final Assignment.

One of the five problems is: Fold a square piece of paper in any way you like. With just one straight-line cut create each of the pieces shown in the second photo. The first photo shows your classmates solving the problem in class.