Reflections on Session 5

Today we continued with division of fractions in a visual way. I find that this is a very good method of helping  children understand what we mean when we divide fractions or need to make a comparision. I also learnt that there are 3 levels of difficulty in the Primary Maths Curriculum: Knowledge, Comprehend and Application.
We also touched a little about Bloom's Taxonomy which divides educational objectives into three "domains": Cognitive, Affective, and Psychomotor (sometimes loosely described as knowing/head, feeling/heart and doing/hands respectively).



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One important thing that I learnt today was the external stimulus that teachers subconsiously give to the children while we are teaching them. Upon reflection, it seems that we usually only question the children when they have made a mistake but Dr Yeap has shown the importance of questioning them even if they are right so that they are given opportunities to rationalize their answers and truly understand how they have solved that problem.