Primary Mathematics – Page 2

March 1, 2021

Let primary school children dream big – mathematics can help with Boldungu

Many children dream big and we love that about them! Kids want to be sculptors, veterinarians, zookeepers, pilots, engineers, doctors, dancers — they are only limited by their imaginations. As parents and teachers, our job is to give kids the tools they need to realize these dreams. Math learning is one of those critical tools that is a pathway to many dreams be it politics, business, arts, engineering and many others.

Although many people see mathematics as a tool for doing calculations, it is a language for expressing logical thoughts, which is learned through reasoning and logic. As Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson, the billionaire entrepreneur and founder of Virgin Group precisely said, “The best way of learning about anything is by doing”

Tap into the drive time, Tv time, idle time and engage children with mathematics. Print Textbooks are paper homework’s are too boring and have same questions! Take a leap towards the dreams and join many parents that already trust Boldungu to make dreams come true. Learn mathematics, the methods, concepts and track progress. All is aligned with national curriculum for mathematics for classes from primary 3 to primary 7.

With Boldungu you can

Let children work directly on the computer
Print quiz and workbooks and let children work on paper a later enter answers for marking
Let children work on the mobile phone where Internet only needed when creating the quiz and workbooks, after that they can work offline.

Start today at zero cost, and dare you child to dream! Find boldungu on Google play store

February 15, 2021February 15, 2021

Boldungu in Pictures – Primary School Mathematics

Learn and practice mathematics. Get new questions, review answers and methods for arriving at the answers after trying. Detailed score card for topics, subtopics and questions. Choose topics and learn by doings. Lots of question types and explanation from best teachers.

Boldungu helps learners practice mathematics by providing a collection of questions, answers and explanation of concepts and methods.

As a person interested in improving mathematics scores for any grade, the questions are grouped into quiz sets based on the topics selected. The content is specific to the national curriculum of the selected countries. Unlike traditional text books, learners choose and have as many questions as possible for practice.

Boldungu works as follows:

Quiz Sets

Random fresh questions in groups of 10 makeup a quiz and this provides a short but challenging practice session. Questions come as multi-choice, drag and drop, and free text. They include beautiful graphics.

Linked Answers and Review

Each Question attempted is a chance to revise the answers and alternative methods. Each answer is linked to learning areas where further reading or practice questions can be selected. Lots of new question answering techniques are waiting for you.

Performance Board

Performance board is a simple score card that shows the questions attempted and improvement trends. A five-star rating gives a quick graphical view to allow you choose where to focus.

Recognition

Earn badges, certificates and virtual gifts when you excel in particular topics, subtopics or question formats.

January 20, 2021January 20, 2021

Interpret Mathematics result before congratulating yourself

Despite the presence of mathematics in the daily lives of most of us, it remains the most complained about subject and a source of serious stress for many. Most lives, be it a cook or a farmer, a carpenter or a mechanic, a shopkeeper or a doctor, an engineer or a scientist, a musician or a magician can be stress free in their day-to-day life if mathematics is well understood and utilized. In this article we share with the boldungu users how to help their learners improve scores and build confidence.

Below are some of the tips and tricks to maximize the benefits by working through the process for each problem:-

Reread some sentences

Avoid the temptation to start answering after reading the question once. Read and read it again to be sure you completely understand what the question is asking for. The aim of rereading some sentences is to confirm that you have fully understood the question. Do not be quick to conclude that it is identical to the one you have seen before. That is why at boldungu, we make available all sorts of questions in some cases with slight but significant variations to ensure the learners is in the habit of understanding the question before putting pen to paper.

Underline some important data in the text

Once you have read the question, it is important to underline some important data. Do not just underline numbers and value, there are words such as more, less, altogether, and others from the math vocabulary such as round off, power of, exponents that must be underlined. The trick with underlining is that it keeps you focused and serves as basis to verify your result.

Make a plan

For longer problems, a detailed plan is needed, for some just pointing to specific method or approach is enough. At boldungu we relate each problem to specific methods and the reasoning behind.

Divide the problem into subtasks before solving it

This goes in hand with the plan. Larger problems need to be divided in subtask. In some cases there is need for intermediate results before the final results. This will help you to understand the problem before the solution

Interpret the result before congratulating yourself.

Does your answer make sense? This must be in relation to important data underlined above. Is the answer expected to be smaller than one of the data provided? For instance when adding, we expect the final result to be bigger. Before congratulating yourself, you must check the answer if it is approximately correct.

October 30, 2020

Did you store mathematics in the School Brain or Real Brain?

When I interacted with one parent during needs assessment for the Boldungu application, she could not understand why, Erica (not real name) – in primary seven vacation could not estimate the number of floor tiles needed to resurface their living room and yet he had scored not only a distinction in mathematics, but aggregate 4 in total. Taking a good look at most national curriculum for mathematics, they elaborately cover how to workout areas of shapes including areas of combined shapes in form “L”, “T”, “F”, trapeziums, and parallelograms to mention but a few. In fact they also cover measurements including instruments used to measure length.

As the mother explained, she expected Erica to determine the dimensions of the living room, determine the dimensions of each tile and proceed to calculate the number of tiles needed. As the discussion raged on, we formulated a belief that there is a disconnection between the school brain and real brain especially for mathematics at lower learning levels. In the majority of the learners mind, the mathematics for school is understood and ends in class using the school brain. Questions outside the school are approached using the real brain, which encounters them as brand new concepts.

One approach to this problem is to try and bring real life questions into the classroom setting. But this does not help much as the learners still seem to store this knowledge in the school brain as long as it is delivered from the school. Our approach at Boldungu is to two fold. First, Boldungu is designed for use outside the classroom. Secondly, we have weekly activity packages that are structured for practical hands on activities and learners share their results via whatsapp. That way, we hope to bridge the gap between the two brains. We are also working on other tools and technologies to fuse these brains, because we understand that all knowledge covered in the school setting must be applied in the real word.

October 19, 2020

Master the mathematics and keep working on it to master it.

Most teachers and parents that have closely worked with learners will affirm that a good number of learners quickly forget mathematics concepts after learning them. They will get 100% on day one, less and lesser marks as the days pass by. Few days later, the learner gives you a blank stare on the very concept he/she previously excelled on. In the same spirit, that’s why, although a good tool daily school home-works can be deceptive especially when they focus on the work just covered a few hours ago. Yes, they learnt, and they forgot.

This state of affairs is the leading cause of gradual poor attitude towards mathematics because it dampens progress, confidence and morale for all. To address this problem, their needs to be an easy way, possibly using technology to allow learners master mathematics and keep working on it. This is part of the issues that Boldungu – for bold learning aims to address. Provide easy to use tools for schools, parents, teachers and learners to quickly spin up a cycle of questions to regularly test mastery of various concepts and keep learners fully checked.

So far, our toolbox that is helping many learners includes boldungu.com web version and the Boldungu mobile app available at Google Play store. Of course we spend lots of time and expertise from teachers to build and maintain these tools for other generations to come. That is why we change a small fee but make it affordable for weekly, monthly or even yearly payments.

Helping learners to master and perfect mathematics is matter of survival for future workforce because with automation, artificial intelligence and robots, future workers will need more analytical skills. The earlier we prepare our sons and daughters the better.

October 10, 2020October 10, 2020

Motivate Your child to make friends with mathematics using the boldungu Awards and Badges.

As promised, the boldungu team is taking learning mathematics to another level. Today we launch the awards and badges feature. Let the learners do the math and be motivated by the awards and badges. Some are individual with a specific target, others are on the class level and others competitive for all learners. We are still focusing on primary 3 to primary 7 mathematics. If your child or your friends child or your neighbors child is not learning math with boldungu, its time to signup now at https://boldungu.com . Everybody has chance to make friends with mathematics and unlock dreams.

We have a variety of awards including daily, weekly and monthly awards. Some awards depend solely on the learner while other are competitive based on other learners in the same level, topic or entire system. Awards include Five Star, Excellent Effort, Rising Star, among others