Friday, April 3, 2015

What Bread Clip Mathematics is about

Bread Clip Mathematics................

I grew the idea as my son grew from one level to another, from one topic to another.

All using bread clips.

The principles involved:
* Concrete-Pictorial-Abstract Approach
* Multiple Intelligences
* Social-learning Platform
* Meta-cognition - Thinking about your Thinking and Actions

Sounds like gibberish to you?
Well, even school leaders didn't catch it.

But my son did. And from one who couldn't tell what 'more than one' and 'one more than' meant to passing Standard Mathematics.......

And I taught my 6 year old god-daughter 3 terms of P1 Arithmetic.... in an hour. I was flat out, but she was enthusiastic and pining for more. To her, it was play.

And play it was to my Primary One class for a semester until I resigned and taught my own son. I heard those children suffered under the hands of another teacher who didn't understand what play therapy in Mathematics was all about.

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