Today's lesson was extremely fruitful and informative. At the beginning I felt apprehensive and unsure about the topics as in word problem sums and fractions. It looks so effortless the way Dr Yeap teaching us but I was like going.... oh dear..fractions?
I have taught bigger kids of Kindergarten 2 word problems. I have learned to make it as simple as possible to get them to have a better understanding. Initially they had a hard time but with consistency and practice, they could do it. Visual teaching made it much easier for kids to grasp the concept rather than anything. I did enjoy the word problem sums and how my other course mates working in a groups coming to create simple word problems. It was interesting.
Coming to fractions, I was totally lost. There were few word problem with fractions. I must say it was like going back to primary school. I dreaded for a moment. But it was interesting and fun to learn as how Dr Yeap taught us. His methods and ideas somehow made sense and I could work on the sums. The folding of paper to equal parts was very tricky. It basically taught me to find out how to check if all the parts are equal. The folding paper activity gave me a clearer picture to understand fractions a little better... well it certainly going to take time for me.
Towards the end of class, we had the quiz! Oh my what a stress! I can sense a sea of uncertainty around my class. I was like breaking in sweats. This is was not good. But as time was clicking, after reading the questions few times I somehow worked out and hope I got it correct!.
What a relieve as in when the quiz was over that is. ;)
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