Lesson Plan For Virtual Maths

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Lesson Plan Date

: 31st August 2007

Day

: Saturday

Time

: 8.00 – 9.00/ 10.30-

11.30am Level

: Year 5 / Year 4

No. of pupils

: Year 5 - 10 boys 7

girls Year 4 - 13 girls and 8 boys. Subject

: Mathematics

Topic

: Volume & Mass

Sub-topic

: Capacity of water

Time allocated

: 2 periods (60

minutes) Teaching Materials

: IWB, Virtual

manipulative, bottles and coloured water. Suzie Aji (08B1046) B.Ed in Primary Education (Maths and Science) 2009

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Learning Outcomes At the end of the lesson: o

Pupils should be able to grasp the idea to find the capacity of a bottle by pouring water inside the bottle,

o

Teacher should be able to recognize pupils who were able to solve the activity,

o

Teacher should be able to acknowledge the high ability pupils in Year 5 and Year 4 class.

Lesson Presentation Set Induction 

Teacher demonstrates how to find the capacity of a bottle by simply pouring water in big bottle using a small bottle.

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Count with pupils how many times we have to fill in the water inside the bottle using the small bottle.

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Ask pupils to pour water half of the capacity of the big bottle by asking how many times they have to use the small bottle to fill in half the big bottle.

Stages of Lesson Development Stage 1 

On the computer, go to the Website (http://nlvm.usu.edu/ed/nav/category_g_2_t_4.html) to use the virtual manipulative an enrichment activity.

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First teacher demonstrates how to carry out the activity.

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Then teacher and pupils discuss the problem and solve it together.

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At the same time teacher show the algorithm on the whiteboard to make pupils to able to visualize the actual problem.

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Activity: o

Teacher and pupils try out few questions to allow pupils to master the concept of the activity.

Stage 2 

Teacher asks pupils to sit in a group of three people.

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Activity (group work): o

Pupils try out as many activities until they can solve the problem.

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o Teacher observes to check pupils who can solve the problems and helps pupils who need help. Closure 

Teacher recalls back the lesson by solving the activity which they find very difficult.

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Teacher selects few pupils who are able to do the activity to do it in front to show the rest of the class how to find the answer to the problem.

Evaluation of the lesson

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Report Last two weeks, Ana and me went to Sekolah

Rendah

Pantai

Berakas,

Berakas Kem, and carried out our assignment on teaching Mathematics using Virtual Manipulative. Above is the lesson plan that we used during Suzie Aji (08B1046) B.Ed in Primary Education (Maths and Science) 2009

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that day. We decided to carry out the assignment

using

two

different

levels; Year 5 and Year 4. We asked permission from the school to use one of the computer labs. The aims

of

using

the

lab

were

to

demonstrate using IWB (for teachers) and

do

the

activity

in

pairs

(for

pupils). At 8 am in the morning, Year 5 pupils entered the lab. They sat on the floor in front of the IWB. Teacher started to do

demonstration

of

the

activity

using IWB. The purpose was so that pupils would get the idea of what the topic is all about. Then teacher did the activity together with the pupils. Suzie Aji (08B1046) B.Ed in Primary Education (Maths and Science) 2009

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Pupils gave positive interaction and feedback. Teacher also invited few randomly selected pupils to do the activity using IWB. Later on, pupils were grouped in pairs and asked to do the activity using desktops. One desktop per pair. Teachers observed and also facilitated those in needs. When pupils were able to solve the questions,

pupils

explained

to

teachers how they get the answers. We did the same procedures with Year 4 pupils. The class started at 10.30 am until 11.30 am using the same lab. While we executed the assignment,

we

took

photos

and

videos. But sadly, the videos cannot be viewed due to technical problems. Suzie Aji (08B1046) B.Ed in Primary Education (Maths and Science) 2009

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As the result from the project, we accomplished the learning outcomes successfully. For Year 5, we were able to identify 2 pupils who were high ability. They were able to solve some of the activity and capable to explain how they solved the activities and used algorithm. While the rest just got the answer by chance. For Year 4 pupils, we could identify 5 high ability pupils. They were able to grasp a pattern on how to solve the activity

but

algorithm.

they

did

Surprisingly,

not they

use were

able to solve more than 10 different questions on their own using the pattern

they

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found

during

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demonstration

suing

IWB

earlier.

While the rest, because they cannot visualize the pattern and did not understand how to use the algorithm, they found difficulties in solving the activity.

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