In the morning, all the students shared withe rest of the class how their weekends were... This gave an opportunity to every one to 'express themselves' and enhance their communication skills as the children usually feel most comfortable when they speak about themselves!
We then went ahead with our Math assessment. It was a very interesting way of assessment through differentiation. The students were paired level wise and they were asked to create questions for their partners based on the pattern of questions given to them. It was amazing to see how this assessment not only gave a clear picture of how much the students knew but also portrayed their critical thinking skills; as you might know, the highest order of thinking is when a child evaluates!!
I would also like to bring up a point here.. a lot of parents were unsure what binary, octal and hexa - decimals numbers were and you might be wondering if it was appropriate for the children to be learning about the same. I would like to mention that this topic was done only to challenge the students' thinking abilities. Only when they learnt that there are various ways of grouping the numbers, did they begin to appreciate the Base 10 system (that we usually use!). It was a topic done also to foster academic rigor in grade 5.
Let me know what you all think... we can always use this medium as a "Forum" for parents too... :)
4 comments:
After having understood the thought behind challenging the children I quite like this idea. But I would like to know how we build further when a child is stuck with it. Are you going to finally lead him/her to the feeling of overcome something which seemingly looked different and hence feel more encouraged to take more challenges or the story ends only with that assignment
It is the 'process' that we ate looking at here and not really the 'content'. And yes, the children are feeling excited about learning something absolutely new and challenging! The knowledge of these number systems has helped them in appreciating the Base 10 system and the place value. The learning through the assignment and the various activities was assessed through an assessment yesterday.
Excellent Blog. Really helpful. Need to get used to check on this daily. The Number systems was really good. It's good that they are learning different base numbers. We could get to do that only in our graduate level. So the kids are way ahead from generation to generation which is really good.
Great to hear some appreciation!! These kind of comments act as "Power Boosters'!! Thanks a tonne!
Please could you also mention your name.. as it says 'anonymous' for the commenter's name.
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