Teaching Strategy
Teaching Strategy
Mental math refers to the practice of Mental math will not only serve
doing calculations mentally or all in your students well in school, it will
head. Mental math is an extremely help them outside of the
common and practical skill. classroom as well. Students
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who master the technique of
mental math will find that the
strategy helps them in many
situations.
A strategy that fosters idea creation. It In order to get the children
involves the contribution of a number of started the teacher can give
spontaneous ideas related to a given some ideas to encourage
topic. Brainstorming acts as a useful brain students’ active participation.
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starter/ice breaker technique that gets the
children working who start speaking and
sharing ideas as a result of a sudden
response to a stimulus.
Guided Practice is an interactive The teacher leads the activity
instruction between teacher and students. but solicits help from students
15 Guided practice After the teacher introduces new learning, at predetermined points along
he/she begin the student practice process the way.
by engaging students in a similar task.
This real-world context is familiar enough Students who don’t see how to
and apply classroom lessons to the
imaginable to students and can therefore "real world" are in danger of
serve as a stepping-stone for thinking tuning out their education.
Learning from real-life about important mathematical concepts Weaving real-world examples
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situation into learning can help children
understand why they’re in
school and how these lessons
lead to them achieving their
goals.
Discussion refers to communicative Assign roles and explain the
situation that allows its participants to task clearly to the students
share their views and opinions with other and ensure that all the
participants. It is a systematic exchange members of the group
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of information, views and opinions about participate.
topic, problem, issue or situation among
the members of group who share some
common objectives
Interpreting graphs involves Graphs are useful not just as a
understanding what the shape of a curve visual representation of a set
represents in real life situations. We of data, but for helping
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should also understand what slope means consolidate students’
and how to interpret what a high or low knowledge of gradients and
slope value represents. linear functions.
The purpose of a starter, prior to planning Having a starter which signals
it, gives a sense of direction in what might straight away how you expect
otherwise be an automatic task. As a them to behave, learn and
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teacher, it is important you set the interact.
standards to which you want your
students to rise.