Day 5: 26th August 2011

We began with last lesson's problem of solving the question of how many 1/4 are there in 3?

Most of us using the military method of change over to complete the sum, however,we do not have an explaination of why it is worked out in such a way?

Therefore, I begin to wonder if what I had learnt back in school was just a waste of time. We just use the formula taught to work them out in time. But by drawing for children to visualize the problem allows them to visualize and understand the sum better and to complete it with understanding.

We also learnt how to find the area of shapes on a grid paper. To count the equal number of squares or triangles to find out the area. This was a challenging and interesting activity for all of us. We even tried making odd shapes, the square with the largest area and so on.

The other activity was for all of us to collate the number of pegs we had to plot it into a graph. I suggested to make it unique by pastingthe pegs on the paper itself. We were then able to observe and compare the graph readings.