THE MEASUREMENT IN PRIMARY EDUCATION

Hello everyone! Today, I would like to share you some didactic resources that you can find out on the Internet and use them in order to teach measurement in the classroom. I consider that these types of resources will be motivating and entertaining for learners because they will have fun and at the same time, they will be learning and develop their skills on the new technologies. Moreover, I truly believe that they will understand more effective and meaningful the different concepts that imply the measurement, because it is usually confusing, since they are about subjective concepts in which many students have difficulties to truly understand, so, through providing them these didactic resources, it will be helpful for them. First game called “The LONGITUDE”. In this resource, students will learn the different measurements related to the longitude, it is composed by for main activities. The first one is about measuring using the meter and handspans, in the second one, it...

The probability plays an important role in our daily life since a wide range of different situations appear spontaneously in which it creates us an uncertainty making the probability a useful tool to evaluate the different circumstances and make the correct choice. Many teachers use different materials to teach probability such as dices, bags of marbles, wheels, etc. In this way, children can practice many times differently and understand better what probability implies.  According to some researches of Fischbein has proved that children have the ability to process the information with probabilistic character in a meaningful way. For this reason, it is important to teach probability in Primary Education in which teachers can provide them a wide range of various activities in which they can learn to distinguish uncertainty, make comparisons between their predictions and what it really happens with the purpose of developing their autonomy and individual ini...

Welcome to another day! Today, I would like to explain to you the different materials that teachers can use in order to teach the measurement concept in a more effective and entertaining way. According to this topic, I consider that using some manipulative materials is very rewarding and helpful for learners because they can explore using their hands and brain at the same time. Moreover, it is a perfect way of visualising subjective concepts that are very complicating to understand for young learners even for adults.   GEOPLANO The geoplano was created by the mathematician Caleb Gattegno in 1960. This mathematician was looking for a method to teach geometry in the most didactic way and he proposed this material in order to introduce the geometric concepts in a manipulative way in which children can understand better these subjective and abstract concepts which most of the time they generate errors ideas. A geoboard is mathematical manipulative used to explore basic conce...

Welcome again to a new post! In this entry, I will be focused on how teachers can provide young learners opportunities to experiment and understand what measurement is and how they can use different ways of measuring without using the traditional formulas or calculations. The first idea that came into my mind is making learners use their body in order to measure, so, a good way of encouraging them to learn and enhance their interest in mathematics, the development of practical activity could be very interesting and motivating. For this reason, I will explain the activity in order to introduce the longitude to students from the third cycle of Primary Education. First of all, they will work in groups of three or four people, and each one of them will have a purpose, although all the learners will measure the same objects, for example, a table, a pencil, a chair, the blackboard, the door, the window, a book, etc, but with different instruments and using different strategies a...

Hello again! In this entry, I will be focused on explaining some activities which can be very motivating and interesting for students in order to learn the angles. I’m going to take Yeap Ban Har as a reference who proposed the Singapur method in which one of the most purposes is the development of students’ abilities to imagine and think about solutions to a certain situation in order to learn the reason why they made those decisions and how they reached to the solution. Moreover, according to this method, students learn more meaningfully if there is something visual and manipulative. For this reason, I’m going to share with you three practical activities to do in your mathematics classroom in order to teach angles in an effective and motivating way; FIRST ONE: USING THE DOOR This activity is very simple and fun which would reinforce the basic understanding of angles. The only thing that the teacher has to do is using colourful adhesive tapes and a post-it in order to m...