Lesson 7 – Making Largest Even Number was such a favorite. Definitely mine ‘cause that’s how I got myself a peg. This lesson itself is so similar to ‘tikam-tikam’ that I almost thought it’s all about luck. Oh well, luck is definitely part of the game (like how I got ‘6532’ in the correct squares) although probability or chance; giving numerical value, is the correct term of describing this game.
Thinking and problem solving are life skills in the 21st century competencies and its 5 big ideas of what constitute mathematics are as follow:
- Generalization
- Visualization
- Communication
- Number Sense
- Metacognition
Word for the evening…SUBITIZE…. that’s the ability of saying the number of items just by looking at it. Interesting, normal people will only be able to subitize small number of items.
We got to know two persons in relation to Math:
- Jerome Bruner (CPA approach; Concrete Pictorial Abstract Approach)
- Howard Gardner (multiple intelligence; and memory is NOT one of the intelligence. *So it’s ok to forget! Hee!*)
One important thing that I learnt in this session that all teachers should also note is that teaching Math is not about getting the answer, but going through the process of getting the answer, which may have varied ways to do so.
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