Thursday 18 May 2006

Me in a teacher's role!!

Have you ever tried teaching maths to a 5th grade student?? well try now!! I taught a girl from neighourhood n just cdnt imagine how little they know!! Though she learned (or rather crammed) tables of numbers till 9 in 4th class itself, she still cdnt remember them.. Her mom sent me to teach her how to add unlike fractions..
And so i had a student who is supposed to know all multiplications/dicisions involving numbers not greater than 12 and who learned LCM in class 3 to tell her how to add/subtract unlike numbers...
(( BTW.. those of you, who dont know how it is done shd see here.. And who actually had to see this page.. pls go and read class 5 Maths textbook :P ))

Before teaching her this i asked her a few questions to know her skill level.. In a problem to reduce fractions.. she got and what she did was---

:) now i called my mom for SOS.. how to tell her these basic things.. now accolades to my mom who finally made her understand/remember how division is done...
Next she got 30/10... and guess wat she did now... she wrote 10) 30 ( and sat there thinking with which number shd she divide???
She wrote 3 x 3 =6...
then triple of 2 is 5...
2 x 2 x 5 = 30!!!
So at the end of half an hour i was abt to pull my hair... But with what remaining patience i had ( It wasnt much i tell you) i started correcting her mistakes and by the end of another hour... voila!! she had learned how to add unlike fractions...
Now please please please pray for me that her mom never asks me again to teach her maths...

2 comments:

  1. teacher... teacher...
    mere ko bhi pls Math sikha dijiye naa ;))


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