Didactics - Week 9 -

This week Mina told us to take a Maths class. We had to give different explanations to the children to make them learn Units and Tens. She divided the class in some groups and each group had to prepare a class for the following day.
Mina gave us some requirements. There were five different nationalities in our classroom, and there were different levels of Maths. So, we had to deal with that.

My group first gave a theorical explanation, but audiovisual through a PowerPoint. We made them count in english with apples, so the ones who did not know english well, could connect the number of apples with the numbers in english. Then, we made an exercise in the PowerPoint for them to understand the activity that they will do the following minutes.
When the PowerPoint's presentation ended, we divided the class in strategic groups to make a balance. We mixed the students who didn't know much english with the ones who know it well, and the ones who didn't know much Maths with the ones who did.

Then, we gave them some activities to get known that they had understood the contents. The activities were the following: First they has to underline in different colours (red and blue) the units and the cents of different numbers. There was a teacher per group so they could ask whatever they wanted. The next activity was more difficult because they had to add numbers and then divide the result into units and tens with the colours that they have used before.

The last activity had the objective of making them see the different groups of numbers and let them divide into units and tens. We gave them balloons and each balloon was a unit, so we told them a number and they had to divide the class into units and tens depending on the number that was told.

To sum up, the activity didn't work as we expected because all of us were very nervous and we didn't coordinate the activities well.