AEIS, Math

Date: 290409

Day: Wednesday

Students present: Michael, William, Susan, Henry

Students absent: Noe Noe

Teacher (main and assistants): James

Subject: Mathematics

Topic: Real Numbers

Teaching process

Concepts taught:

1) Revision of rules in solving mathematical expressions.

2) Highlighted the importance of simplifying the expressions step by step and showing each step clearly in their working so as to prevent careless mistakes.

3) Enforced checking of their work to train them to be meticulous in their work.

4) Students were given more practice questions that involve simplifying and evaluating mathematical expressions at one time to train up their endurance.

5) Students were taught not to express their answers in improper fractions unless otherwise stated in the question.

Example questions gone through: NA

Practice questions given: Tutorial 2 Qn 8, 9, 10, 11

Post-teaching

General comments of students:

Students were able to finish the tutorial questions given albeit longer than the time given initially apart from Michael who was able to concentrate better and finish his work beforehand. The rest of the students showed restlessness after an hour or so and as a result took longer.

Improvement points of students:

William and Susan were able to concentrate much better than they usually do and produced better quality work. Both of them were also more careful in their work after enforcing the checks to be done.

Michael has also learnt from his careless mistakes during his test and have shown improvement in the practices given.

Henry has to work on his endurance as he showed the greatest degree of restlessness during the process.

Homework given (including due date): Students were asked to compile the corrections done for tutorial 2 so that all corrections can be completed during the next lesson.