For this fourth session, we revisit the ways the children learn about
Mathematics and Richard Skemp who is pioneer in Mathematics Education
who first integrated the disciplines of mathematics, education and psychology.
Children learn mathematical skills through:
- Visualization
- Patterning
- Number sense
- Metacognition
Richard Skemp:
- Instrumental Understanding – to know how to do a specific task quickly.
- Relational Understanding - can relate to what one know before, explore further, more concerned with the process
- Conventional Understanding – understand the meaning behind.
Dienes
- Systematic variation - experience variation through, for example, concrete tools, multiple representation of a concept
What have
I learnt for this fourth session?
- Ways in which children learn Mathematics
- Richard Skemp’s theory on understanding Mathematics
- Reinforcement on the approaches of teaching Mathematics to Children:
- Scaffold, role model, explore
- Concrete, pictorial, abstract
- Systematic variation
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