AEIS, Maths

Date: 040509

Day: Monday

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

Students absent: NA

Teacher (main and assistants): James

Subject: Maths

Topic: Factors and Multiples, Real Numbers

Teaching process

Concepts taught:

1) Revision of presentation methods during lesson as students still made similar errors during their corrections.

2) Revision of concepts in solving simple mathematical expressions such as the conversion of an improper fraction to a mixed number. Students did not have a good understanding of the difference between improper fractions and mixed numbers. After the revision, majority of students were able to convert improper fractions to mixed numbers quite proficiently except for William who needs more practices.

Example questions gone through: NA

Practice questions given: Whole of Tutorial 2 corrections. Maths test re-corrections

Post-teaching

General comments of students: Additional practices will be required on Factors and Multiples, esp word problems, to embed the different concepts and presentation methods taught. They are also rather weak in their maths foundation though the weaknesses have to be discovered along the way. An example would be the conversion of improper fractions to mixed number. To a singaporean student, expressing the final answer to a question in mixed number would seem instinctive. However, these students did not even know how to express a fraction as a mixed number initially. Therefore, tutors will have to pay careful attention to their answers and workings to spot these fundamental weaknesses.

Improvement points of students:

Students understood how to express an improper fraction as a mixed number. They were generally more well behaved during lessons and receptive to errors. Most were able to complete their corrections apart from William and Susan.

Homework given (including due date): William and Susan have to submit their corrections by the next maths lesson on 060509.