This Grade 6 Fractions Learning intervention explains all topics and examples under fractions
Monday, 11 July 2022
Tuesday, 7 September 2021
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Tuesday, 12 April 2016
Equivalent fractions lesson I created with office mix, a PowerPoint add-in, enjoy learning...
https://mix.office.com/watch/1wthryt6smq3j
https://mix.office.com/watch/1wthryt6smq3j
Tuesday, 10 November 2015
Thursday, 29 October 2015
Creation of Digital Materials Three year phased Project
Friday, 14 August 2015
Creation of Digital Materials for Interactive Mathematics Learning
In this project as a Maths educator, I am developing digital materials using new technologies such as Office Mix, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Sway to liven up my classroom, to engage learners with content , to develop learners' 21st Century skills and to enhance the quality of Mathematics teaching and learning. The problem I have seen is that learners' performance in Mathematics is becoming weaker every year than the previous year. Although the curriculum is changing every now and then, the fact remains that the curriculum is pre-digital and offered by pre-digital educators to digital learners. Although I was born before technology, I have taken initiatives to develop myself digitally hence I am able to prepare the digital materials. The digital materials I prepared will be available on my blog, OneNote and Facebook. Both teachers and learners could access them on my blog and on my Facebook page.
I will also inspire
learners to develop their own materials to reinforce their Mathematics learning
. They will create performances such as songs, plays, videos and many more and
digital materials such as PowerPoints, Word
Documents, OneNote pages, Sways, e-books, Posters, etc. on computers and
iPads. The performances and digital materials will be shared with other
learners at school during assembly and
in the classrooms and will be made available on You Tube, my
blog and the class OneNote.
Friday, 17 July 2015
Friday, 17 April 2015
My Tweet Among The Tweets of the Week
My tweet has been selected as one of the tweets of the week in #MIEExpert15 MIE Minute update. https://sway.com/wAvyfehR3cobuCiJ
Friday, 27 February 2015
Sunday, 15 February 2015
Get Creative with Microsoft Free Tools and Dock to Desktop
Big ideas start from innovative and
small ideas. Innovative minds already know that using ICT to enhance learning is
a critical path to take but as to where to start, others are still in the dark.
In this blog you will learn from the very first webinar I conducted on the 12th
of February 2015 about the “Creative use of Microsoft Free Tools" to kick
start teaching with technology .
The free digital tools are accessible
on Microsoft Educator Network under Resources tab. Tutorials and guidelines in a form of videos
and written explanations are available and come with each tool. The tutorials
do not prescribe how teachers should use the tools but only give guidelines.
Innovative teachers decide on how to creatively use them to bring life to their
lessons. References could be made from other teachers learning activities also
available under the same resources tab on the Microsoft Educator Network
website.
Dock to Desktop is an exciting
functionality used to annotate documents like Word, PowerPoint, Web Browser,
social media and other One Note pages on OneNote. This functionality allows
users to make notes on a docked OneNote and also link the reference page. Say
you are making notes on a PowerPoint, the summary made will have a thumbnail
that will take you back to the PowerPoint whenever you want to.
How do
we create LINKED docked OneNote page that keeps track of the document you are summarizing? Click on the Linked Notes button under Review tab on Word or PowerPoint
documents, a OneNote Page + the associated document will appear. While working
on your OneNote 2013 version you could press Ctrl+Alt+D and same will apply.
Dock to desktop helps students to avoid copy and paste as the teacher will be
able to see the source of students’ work, plagiarism is also avoided as the
page is referenced. Teachers can prepare documents for students to make
reference to while working on their OneNote tasks. Find more information on
Dock to Desktop, Microsoft Educator Network and Schoolnet on the links provided
below.
Links
Dock to Desktop http://bit.ly/1zNNgzq
Microsoft Educator
Network www.schoolnet.org.za
Schoolnet www.educatornetwork.com
Schoolnet Blog http://schoolnetsa.blogspot.com/2015/02/schoolnet-webinar-recording-from-thurs.html
Webinar Recording http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/p51jjj9kt29/ or
https://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/_a1018039008/p51jjj9kt29/?launcher=false&fcsContent=true&pbMode=normal
In conclusion, I would like to acknowledge
Marjolein Hoekstra, AbuUbaydullah Abdulkabeer Ishola, Hari Krishna Arya, Razan Roberts
and others for their continued support, motivation and contribution on this
MIEExpert 15 journey we are taking. Mentors like you are hard to find. Special
thanks to Marjolein for her patience and selfless sharing of ideas.
Friday, 6 February 2015
Finger Approach for Multiplication of 9
Am not aware of where this method originates but the fact remains it worked for me when I was still at Primary School and today it is working for my learners. What happens in short is that fingers are used to find multiples of 9. Watch and learn
Monday, 2 February 2015
Contextualised Games to learn Mathematics
In this project, learners created their own contextualized games after multiplication lessons . As a starting point, all learners' games were accepted no matter how simple the Maths in it was. This encouraged learners to master content they wanted to create games on and that supported learning in a great way.
Outcomes of the project included among others improved focus, self esteem, improved attitude towards learning, interest in other concepts, participation in lessons and improved performance not only in Mathematics but in other subjects as well. The project also benefited me , as learners played the games there was communication, interaction and on the spot intervention . I learned about their weaknesses and strengths which under normal circumstances is not easy more especially with reserved learners . After intervention , learners had to go back to the drawing board, work on the concepts and come up with something even better. Games are really cool for learning more especially at schools like Toronto Primary where number of learners in a classroom ranges between 50 to 65 learners.
After watching the video, feel free to make contributions; your suggestions and comments are of great value. If you are working on similar projects , kindly share your findings and games as well.
Outcomes of the project included among others improved focus, self esteem, improved attitude towards learning, interest in other concepts, participation in lessons and improved performance not only in Mathematics but in other subjects as well. The project also benefited me , as learners played the games there was communication, interaction and on the spot intervention . I learned about their weaknesses and strengths which under normal circumstances is not easy more especially with reserved learners . After intervention , learners had to go back to the drawing board, work on the concepts and come up with something even better. Games are really cool for learning more especially at schools like Toronto Primary where number of learners in a classroom ranges between 50 to 65 learners.
After watching the video, feel free to make contributions; your suggestions and comments are of great value. If you are working on similar projects , kindly share your findings and games as well.
Geogebra for Intrearactive Mathematics Learning
To demonstrate Mathematics to
learners is sometimes a hectic process more especially for 2 digit numbers
on-wards, fractions, etc. With Geogebra, Mathematics
teachers do not need to carry thousands and thousands of stones/bottle tops and to keep cutting objects to
demonstrate the reality of Mathematics. Check out the Geogebra worksheets below.
Try moving the black/red slider and see the numbers and how they increase and
decrease.
Sunday, 18 January 2015
Saturday, 17 January 2015
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