{"id":156,"date":"2021-03-12T09:42:32","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T09:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.boldungu.com\/?p=156"},"modified":"2021-03-12T09:46:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T09:46:21","slug":"passing-a-math-question-is-not-a-proof-of-mastery-of-concepts-repeated-practice-is-a-must-to-link-concepts-to-real-world-meaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.boldungu.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/12\/passing-a-math-question-is-not-a-proof-of-mastery-of-concepts-repeated-practice-is-a-must-to-link-concepts-to-real-world-meaning\/","title":{"rendered":"Passing a math question is not a proof of mastery of concepts – Repeated practice is a must to link concepts to real-world meaning."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Today we share core-learning principle of  \u201cconcepts matter most<\/strong>\u201d that we address in our learning platform after discovering that many children quickly forget after seemingly passing the homework\u2019s.  Our research with several learners and teachers, shows that a good number of children just workout the numbers without understanding or appreciating what they are trying to achieve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us take an example from our study when we requested learners to show what 90 degrees means from the geometric diagrams they were using in their homework\u2019s. Although well drawn with the 90 degrees mark, most learners were oblivious of the fact that an angle is the amount of turn between two lines. Some suggested that 90 degrees was a distance along the vertical and horizontal lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the learning point of view, it is okay for learners to start by working out the numbers as this is in line with booms taxonomy<\/a> of learning.  However, without appreciating the underlying concept of an angle as the amount of turn, upstream concepts such as alternate angles, complementary angles, supplementary angles, interior\/exterior angle properties of triangle become confusing and artificial because of the inability to relate them to real-world meaning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without any relation among the terms and terminologies, learners resort to rote learning or the try and error method where they will simply look at the numbers and either add, multiply or do whatever they can recall the teacher doing to numbers in class. This undesired state of affairs can be mitigated by allowing learners to do more directed practice on specific questions that seek to reinforce a linkage to real-word meaning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boldungu draws from the well-known psychology stimuli-response<\/a> where repeated exposure and reinforcement will lead a natural linkage to concepts.\u00a0 Learners get to create questions for themselves. This first and foremost gives the learners the notion that it is no the teacher against them by firing questions at them, but it is them exploring the world of mathematics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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