AEIS Maths

Date: 14/05/2009

Day: Thursday

Students present: Michael, Henry, William, Susan and Noe Noe

Students absent: Nil

Teacher (main and assistants): Lim Young

Subject: Maths

Topic: Real Numbers

Teaching process

Concepts taught: Let students go through the questions in the CASCO book. They had to do word problems related to real numbers. It was not the first time they are introduced to the word problems. However, they are still not very confident when dealing with word problems. I reasserted the importance of breaking down the questions into key points, which is very important when doing word problems. I also asserted to them the need to present their workings in an orderly manner. They were told to meet the following requirements when presenting their working. They are as follow:

1. Statement (stating what the equation is trying to find)

2. Arrow head (the thing that follow after the statement to denote the beginning of mathematical presentation.)

3. One line one step ( they had to write one step in one line and not in a continuous line. This is to ensure that their presentation will be neat and tidy.)

4. # sign (to denote the FINAL answer of the question)

These requirements ensure that their presentation will be neat and tidy and the will definitely not go wrong by following the steps as mentioned above.

Example questions gone through: Nil

Practice questions given: Nil

Post-teaching

General comments of students: The students were very receptive of the method of presentation I taught them and the picked it up very fast. I must say that they performed tremendously well today with all of them giving me satisfactory work for their assignment. Michael in particular has improved leaps and bounds. With his working much neater, he was less prone to careless mistakes and the quality of work is good. William has improved tremendously too. His now much more dependent on himself and is able to double check his own work with much more confidence. Henry as always is doing fine and has no major problem and so is Noe Noe. Susan has improved much with her neatness but she still need to work on her understanding ability. She is now much more focused in her work which in turn generate better quality work for submission.

Improvement points of students: All them need to make a habit of underlining the key words in the questions to ensure that they are able to understand the questions fully.

Homework given (including due date): Nil