Secondary 2 Math 14/04/09

Date: 14/04/09

Day: Tuesday

Students present: Myint Myat, Ye Naing, Thin Nwe

Students absent: Nil

Teacher: Jasper Ong

Subject: Mathematics

Topic: Algebra (entire topic)

Teaching process

Concepts taught:

- Went through gradesavers algebra test Questions 1 - 5

- Basically went through techniques for answering questions

- Techniques for underlining, rephrasing questions into mathematical terms

- Techniques for simplifying complicated equations; to facilitate cross multiplication, cross factorization and simultaneous substitution

- Introduced technique to identify how many answers a variable can have (power of variable)

- Taught answering technique not to omit any answers for variables

Example questions gone through: Questions 1 - 5

Practice questions given: Nil

Post-teaching

General comments of students:

- Thin Nwe can understand her mistakes and re-did the paper without assistance.

- Ye Naing have certain problems with word problem sums; losing focus halfway and not analysis the question hard enough to determine what it means in quantitative terms

- Myint Myat generally has problems with all the questions. After explaination and doing the question with him and explaining every single step, he was able to redo the questions without guidance at slow speed.

Improvement points of students:

- Myint Myat - Learn to do long cuts, stop skipping steps, understand the flow process of the entire question and understand why every single step is required and what they are leading to.

- Ye Naing - Spend more time reading and analysing through the questions. Underline important key terms and replace them with quantitative terms for easier understanding. Need to practice more, not versatile enough when handling different types of math questions.

- Thin Nwe - need to be less careless, read the question carefully even though long word problems can be daunting. Learn to actively underline questions and replace words with quantitative terms.

Homework given (including due date):

Redo question 1 - 5 of test paper. Due by Friday (17/04/09)