HASTI PUBLIC SCHOOL & JR.COLLEGE
BLOG NO. 84
Maths phobia and
At our Hasti school we organize Mathematics Rangoli competition ,quiz competition and many other activities to generate interest in the subject Mathematics. In this article we are inviting parents to involve your wards in the following 7 important activities
Children very often ask a question as : When am I ever going to use Math? The truth is that we use math all the time!
It is pertinent to note how one experiences mathematical applications in daily life from the time one gets up from bed till one retires to bed
Be it a *cook or a farmer, a carpenter, a mechanic, a shopkeeper or a doctor, an engineer or a scientist , a musician or a magician, an artist or a tailor , everyone needs math in daily life.
Here are some daily tasks for which math are important
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1. Managing time: Keeping a track of time is very important to do all you love to do
2. Budgeting: Managing money, understanding discounts, and buying for the best price
3. Sports: Score, Time, Strategizing to win
4. Cooking: Measuring the ingredients to add to a recipe, kitchen inventory planning
5. Exercising and Dieting
6. Driving: Distance traveled, the shortest route to take to reach a destination
7. Home Decorating
8. Stitching: Measurements to stitch a dress
9. Critical Thinking The Base of other subjects
However we will highlight 7 Examples of Everyday Math to Practice with
Baking and Cooking
Pull out your favorite recipe and let your student help you make something delicious. Along the way, you’ll see how often you work with fractions, addition, subtraction, and more . You need to get the measurements just right to make sure that the finished product turns out edible. If you want to give your student extra practice, try doubling or halving the recipe, too. This gets especially tricky when dealing with the fractions of teaspoons and tablespoons.
Managing Your Finances
Whether you’re balancing a checkbook or putting together a budget, it’s important to know how to use math to help you. Have your child help you pay bills, allowing them to add up the amount you need to pay. You could also have them calculate the average amount paid each month, or how many hours they would need to work to pay the bill if they received X amount of rupees per hour.
Decorating Your Home
Purchasing new furniture takes a lot of math. First, you need to measure the space. Then, you need to figure out what kind of furniture you need to get to fill the space. How big should it be? What size should the furniture be? As you pick out the new pieces, you need to measure the doorways and angles to make sure that the furniture can get into the room, too.
On top of decorating with new furniture, you can use math when calculating how much flooring to purchase or measuring the wall space for a new picture collage. Whatever you decide to do, let your child help you with the decorating process to get a taste for everyday math.
Telling Time
Learning to tell time is part of the math curriculum. However, you also need to learn about fractions in order to tell others what time it is. For example, it’s important to know that a quarter of an hour is 15 minutes or that a half an hour is 30 minutes. Then, you know what people are talking about when they say, “It’s a quarter to 4.”
You may also find an understanding of math helpful to calculate time. Whether you’re trying to beat your mile time or deciding how long to grill a steak, you should know that there are 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, and 24 hours in a day.
Shopping
Next time you go shopping, think about how often you use math. You need to calculate prices, quantities, your budget, and more. You need to think about coupons and discounts , figuring out how much the shirt costs if it’s 30% off of the original ticketed price. As you walk through the store, discuss the math with your child. Let them help you calculate the prices and figure out how much the total will be before the sales associate rings you up.
Planning a Trip
When planning a trip, there are lots of details involved. First off, *you need to think about your budget. Add together the cost of the hotel room, travel expenses, food, entertainment, and more. If you’re driving to your destination, have your student help you calculate the mileage and how much you should expect to pay in gas along the way. If you have a set budget, have your student help you work out the plan to stay within your budget and have money needed for extra expenses on the trip.
Enjoying Sports
Whether you’re playing or watching a sport, you may find yourself doing math without even knowing it . For example, you might say, “we’re down by 5” or “we need two touchdowns to win.” If you enjoy baseball, you can use math to calculate the batting averages, too. As you watch or play sports with your student, identify ways that math is used by the players and officials throughout the game.
It may be surprising for students to find out that there are examples of everyday math all around us. Help your child identify the ways math is used from day to day, so they can understand the importance of mastering the important math concepts.
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How to Improve Student Learning Outcomes
With the advancement in technology and overall growth, there has been a constant dire need for improving the quality of education. The quality is measured on student learning outcomes
This is the reason why you come across such important notions like improving learning outcomes for students.
We all know that every child has unique learning experiences. They feel comfortable learning at their own pace. And it is important for US to understand the impact of learning outcomes for their future.
In today’s world, students are equipped with vast knowledge about advanced technology.
Sometimes students do not pay attention during the lectures. It is because of traditional teaching methods, lack of learning activities, disengagement, poor interaction and lack of communication.
Teachers should understand students’ interest and the need for effective learning. It is important to figure out what kind of activities they might be interested in learning.
We all know that the ultimate learning outcome is from the assessment.
If the assessment is conducted annually then it is difficult to identify their weaknesses and strengths for better learning outcomes.
Therefore regular and periodical tests ,tests after every chapter ,surprise tests , sunday tests, tests on the portion of the chapter etc.are basis of the measure of learning out come *at our Hasti schools.
How to Improve Student Learning Outcomes
In the age of the digital world, students can get easily distracted from learning if the process isn’t interesting. Teachers have to put a lot of effort into designing the curriculum in such a way that it enhances their learning outcomes.
It was observed that when technology was introduced in the classroom, there was an improvement in learning outcomes for students. The gradual change in teaching methods and incorporating digital technology in the classroom helps in improving the learning outcomes for the students.
Ways to Improve Learning Outcomes for Students
1 Outdoor Teaching
Earlier the education system used to have only traditional ways of teaching and learning. All the students used to sit in the classroom for 6-7 hours a day attending continuous lectures. But have you thought about their mindset towards learning? Whether they are able to concentrate or interested in listening to the lectures for long periods of time. If not, then why is it reflecting in their learning outcomes?
So these questions have to be addressed by teachers to improvise their strategies on providing better learning outcomes for students. Have ever you thought about taking lectures outside the classroom? It really helps students to involve themselves with the surrounding environment. You should take students to field trips, museums, *exhibitions conduct classes in the lawn of the school premises
. Sometimes these changes of place can help students to concentrate on learning and develop questioning skills.
2 Updating Teaching Methods
It is very important that you change your teaching methods,you should conceptualize different methods of teaching for students.
You can include learning activities such as seminars, debates, extempore, role play, learning games, learning styles, group discussions etc. This kind of activity awakens the interest among students and focuses more on understanding the concepts.
Conceptualise strategies for different teaching methods
Conduct learning activities in the classroom with the help of technology or any materials
Focus on visual learning as they can retain information for longer periods of time than the words.
Adapt different learning styles of students such as visual, aural, social and physical to teach.
Practice Exam Questions
3 Use of Technology
We all know that technology has brought a wide range of learning opportunities in the education sector. In today’s world, technology is breaking the barrier in providing quality education to the students. Technology in the education sector has an important role in providing the best learning outcomes for the students. But sometimes with the conventional methods, the students lack interest and confidence in learning. In recent years, students expect that they should have the use of technology in their learning environment.
According to the report, 56 percent of children age 8-12 have cell phones, 74% of teachers feel Edtech is a student motivator and 77 % of parents allow the usage of tablets for their children’s learning.
It helps in promoting students engagement for effective learning with the help of online tools
It will provide abundant information in the form of text, videos, images, graphics, documentaries, animations, maps, graphs, infographics etc. Also have ebooks, journals, articles, blogs for enhancing teaching and learning experience
It will help in assessing students with automated questions, quizzes etc. and provide feedback based on the performance of the students
It will enable you to provide personalized guidance to the students for their better learning outcomes.
4 *Regular Assessment
How will you know if the students are understanding what they are learning?
Assessment helps students in understanding their learning abilities, so it is important to conduct on a regular basis in order to identify their strengths and weaknesses based on their performance. You should conduct regular assessments after every chapter in the form of quizzes, games or any activities so that there is a clear understanding of what they have learned and what needs more improvement. Plan your assessment strategy in such a way that there is a clear understanding of the questions and provide instant feedback based on their performance.
Conduct chapter wise, full test, revision test on a regular basis
Take help of online platforms for assessment of students
Help students in managing their time during the test or exams
*Create questions on chapter wise, unit wise or whole syllabus .
5 Encourage Self Learning
students teaching in the class? It is a new approach for better learning
6 Regular Feedback
Every student should be given the opportunity to know their progress or mistakes in their learning process.
It is important to provide feedback regularly to identify their strengths and weaknesses for the scope of improvement. It will help students to develop skills in their learning environment. Once the assessment or any assignment task is done, you have to instantly give feedback so that students can relate to their shortcomings and improve in the next assessment.
7 Interactive Learning
Why do you think interaction can improve learning outcomes in students? We have to understand the fact that effective communication between students and teachers can bring high productivity in the classroom. Sometimes few students feel shy in asking questions related to learning which can affect their grades. If the teachers take a class and leave without interaction or communication with the students leads to poor performance in the exams. It is important for social-emotional learning among students. And when they have social-emotional learning, they are much more skilled in terms of self-learning, decision making, problem-solving, maintaining social relationships, etc. The activities should be conducted to help students to their track goals, role-play and debates. It helps them to achieve their goals, face challenges and solve problems, therefore
Conduct interactive activities for the students in the form of seminars, extempores, speech, debates etc
Encourage students to participate in interactive sessions in the classroom.
*8 Engaging Every student
We should understand that student engagement is important for better learning outcomes. Have you seen students gazing at the blackboard or windows during the class hours? It happens when students start losing interest during the lecture due to poor teaching methods, boring environment, outdated curriculum etc.
So, it is important to engage them for long periods of time by taking classes that are fun and interesting. With this, they will be able to concentrate and improve their learning outcomes. You have to conduct activities that allow students to participate in a better understanding of the concept. Engaging students helps in increasing their attention span during the class and focus on learning.
Conduct engaging activities using visual tools, audio, documentaries, graphics, animations, etc
Use material or props for explaining or demonstrating the concept in the class
Give real-life examples or situations so that students can connect to the concept easily
Promote learning through examples of everyday routine for a better understanding of the concepts.
9 Effective Course Content
The framework of the curriculum should be designed in such a way that it provides expected to learn outcomes for students. We should understand that curriculum is the most important factor in the education sector that provides learning outcomes for the students.
The content should be designed based on the student’s needs and interests. It should contain information, knowledge and skills for effective learning opportunities. Also, focus on what teachers teach and students learn from the curriculum. It should contain topics that are based on authentic research, current trends, national and international knowledge, practicals, activities along with an effective time frame.
10 Personalized Guidance
We all know that every student has a different pattern and style of learning. We cannot compare them with other students’ ability to learn For instance, when you teach something few students with high grasping abilities are more likely to secure high ranks in their exams but what about the average students who take time to understand the concept? In such scenarios, teachers might neglect the average students as they do not pay attention to the individual students leading to poor performance. So it is important to provide personalized guidance to individual students for better learning outcomes. You have to understand their weaknesses and strengths based on their performance. And change the teaching pattern accordingly. With this, the students can learn within their comfort zone and improve their learning outcomes.
Communicate with the students on a regular basis
Identify their interest based* on the learning pattern
Conduct practice and revision tests for better learning outcomes*
Pinpoint their mistakes to identify their weaknesses and strengths
At our school we have already planned all above, if you will implement above 10 points with some on the spot improvisation, then it will enhance LEARNING OUTCOME TO DESIRED LEVEL —————————————————————————————————————————————–
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