The first activity of the day was an interesting one where we had to think of 2 digits, put them together and subtract from the addition of the two digits. It is amazing how Dr Yeap was able to find out our answers just by knowing one number that we thought of. Well, at the end of it, I come to realize that there are indeed many connections between numbers and its pattern.
It is useful to note that things like money and kilograms are called continuous quantity and things like marbles and monsters are called discreet quantity as they are counted as a whole.
Zoltan Dienes stressed the importance of variations, where children learnt better with a variant of ideas on a topic. In this way, children get to explore the multiple ways of solving a problem; there will be no standardization (just like how we taught in school – don’t ask me why, it’s always like this!).
There are two types of division: sharing and grouping.
An example of division in sharing meaning is:
Three boys shared 12 cookies equally. How many cookies did each boy get?
An example of division in grouping meaning is:
12 cookies are put in groups of threes. How many groups of cookies are there?
From this session, there is one vivid idea that was stuck in this brain in relation to fraction: Being equal does not mean identical…(surely something that one should always ponder upon when encountering with shapes; or even other objects in this world, perhaps!)
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