HBMT1103

FAKULTI PENDIDIKAN DAN BAHASA

_____________________________________________________________________SEPTEMBER / 2012

HBMT1103

INTRODUCTION TO MATHEMATICS EDUCATION_____________________________________________________________________

NAMA:CHIN KUI YUNGNAMA TUTOR:NO. MATRIKULASI : 670821125066001NO. KAD PENGNEALAN: 670821-12-5066NO. TELEFON: 0128183559E-MEL: chinkuiyung@hotmail.com PUSAT PEMBELAJARAN: LAHAD DATU LEARNING CENTRE

Table of Contents

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11.0 Introduction1.1 Definition of ICT

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22.0 Three articles involving the use of ICT in teaching primary activities2.1 INNOVATIVE AND CREATIVE USE OF ICT IN PRIMARY MATHEMATICS EDUCATION2.2 IMPLICATIONS OF INTERNET IN PRIMARY MATHEMATICS EDUCATION2.3 WEB-BASED RESOURCES FOR PRIMARY MATHEMATICS

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33.0 Compare & Contrast ICT Resources3.1 Interactive whiteboard3.2 Math Learning Computer Software3.3 Web-based Resources 78910-11

44.0 Selection and justification for choice of ICT resources4.1 Interactive Whiteboard for Low Achievers4.2 Web-based Resources for High Achievers

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55.0 Conclusion

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66.0 References

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1.0 Introduction

Teachers need to constantly explore the advantages of using ICT in the classroom. ICT resources can create, disseminate, store and communicate information in managing the teaching and learning of primary mathematics.

The purpose of the assignment is to research on how teachers should use ICT resources in teaching activities and justify on which ICT resources are suitable to use on low and high achievers in the class.

1.1 Definition of ICT

ICT stands for Information Communications Technology.ICT covers any product that will store, retrieve, manipulate, transmit or receive information electronically in a digital form. For examples: laptop, digital television, interactive whiteboard, robots and etc.

2.0 Three articles involving the use of ICT in teaching primary activities2.1 INNOVATIVE AND CREATIVE USE OF ICT IN PRIMARY MATHEMATICS EDUCATION

Innovative and creative skills are the dynamic agent of transformation to move forward (Lim, 2008). The innovative and creative use of ICT in primary mathematics education can promote higher order thinking skills among students. In the ICT lesson, the role of mathematics teachers is as facilitators to facilitate students to learn mathematics while the students take on the role of active learners.

Computer software can abstract ideas become physical in the same way as mathematics manipulative. Teachers can use the software already on most computers such as MS Word, MS Excel, MS Paint or any other drawing programs to do hands on computer activities for teaching primary mathematics (Burnley, 2005).

Some of the innovative and creative uses of ICT in primary mathematics lessons are as follow:

(a)Interactive WhiteboardInteractive whiteboard is one of the innovative and creative uses of ICT in teaching and learning in schools. It has the potential to transform teaching and learning through the ability to connect teacher, students and computers. This interactive whiteboard enable interactive teaching in which the teacher interacts with the board, the hardware and software and also tools, flipchart, annotation tool, pen colors, highlighters, board rubber, camera tool and handwriting recognition tool (Easingwood & Williams, 2004).

(b)Digital ProductsMathematics teachers can relate learning mathematical concepts with the use of ICT such as word processing and presentation software to produce creative and innovative product. Students can use their digital camera to take pictures of shapes found around the school and then create a digital album using MS PowerPoint presentation. The digital product can be presented to the whole class.

(c)Searching Information Mathematics teachers can select some suitable Internet websites or courseware available in CD-ROM for students to explore and search information regarding mathematical problems. This will encourage students to use their thinking skills and creativity to solve the problems given.

(d)Multimedia TechnologyMultimedia technology such as computer and television can be used for learning mathematical concepts in a more exciting and meaningful way. For examples, students can explore computer software to learn mathematical concepts such as number and operations, measurement, algebra, geometry, data analysis and probability.

(e)Interactive ActivitiesStudents can use Internet or CDROMs to access mathematical interactive activities such as games, puzzles, problem solving. They can apply their mathematical concepts through the hands-on computer activities.

Resources from: Sharifah A.R(2011) HBMT1103, INTRODUCTION TO MATHEMATICS EDUCATION (Nor Hawan Misran & Rubaidah Ismail & Murugiah Velayutham & Dr Yeoh P.C) THEORY AND PRACTICE OF ICT IN PRIMARY MATHEMATICS EDUCATION, 7, 146-147.

2.2 IMPLICATIONS OF INTERNET IN PRIMARY MATHEMATICS EDUCATION

Internet access is available in most places in Malaysia and the world in general. This technology enables students to involve in global learning in which learning is no longer confined in the classroom. Students and teachers are able to communicate anywhere anytime, read the latest news from the Internet, and gain access to diogital multimedia materials from sites around the world to prepare their assignments or lessons.

However, teachers should be aware that not all materials abtained from the Internet are suitable for theur students. Therefore, teachers need to evaluate the content of the websites before it is used in their classroom. Mathematics teachers need to check whether the content of the website is accurate, current, reliable and suitable to the age of the students. Bitter and Pierson (2002) noted that teachers need to understand all online activities are not entirely secure or private and some materials may be inapproprisate for some students. So, teachers have to seek ways to help students to safely explore the Internet for the purpose of enhancing their learning.

William (2000) identified three major reasons why the Internet can be used effectively by teachers and students.(a) Teachers can find a lot of useful and free resources on the internet. (b) The Internet can also be used as direct instruction for teaching some mathematic topics or content. Some of the direct instruction websites are shareware instructional websites, Intranet and portals.(c) One of the powerful characteristics of the Internet is that it enables teachers and learners to communicate with each other to promote collaboration with other schools and classes around the world. Resources from: Sharifah A.R(2011) HBMT1103, INTRODUCTION TO MATHEMATICS EDUCATION (Nor Hawan Misran & Rubaidah Ismail & Murugiah Velayutham & Dr Yeoh P.C) THEORY AND PRACTICE OF ICT IN PRIMARY MATHEMATICS EDUCATION, 7, 147-148.

2.3 WEB-BASED RESOURCES FOR PRIMARY MATHEMATICSSome of the electronic resources suitable for primary mathematics education are as follows.

(a) WebTV Rasmi Kementerian Pelajaran MalaysiaURL: http://www.eduwebtv.comIn line with the development of the ICT, the Ministry of Education Malaysia made an effort to broadcast WebTV through the Internet to reduce the digital gap in education. WebTV covers various fields which can be accessed through eight learning channels such as News, Academic, Interview, Documentary, Curriculum, Interactive, Live telecast and Guidelines.

(b) Primary ResourcesURL: http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/math/maths.htmThe Primary resources have a wide range of free resources for teaching primary mathematics. It provides free worksheets, lesson plans and teaching numbers and the number system, calculations, solving problems, measures, shape and space and also handling data.

(c) BBC KS2 BitesizeURL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/maths/This website has free resources for teachers teaching primary mathematics such as lesson plans, worksheets, games, and activities.

(d) Internet4Classrroms: Elementary Math ResourcesURL: http://www.internet4classrooms.com/math_elem_index.htmThis is a free Web portal for teachers, parents and students for all ages who want to find high-quality, free Internet resources to use in classroom instruction, developing project ideas, reinforcing specific subject matter areas both in class and at home and even for online technology tutorials.

(e) Teaching IdeasURL: http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/maths/contents.htmThis website contains a wide range of teaching ideas which include free lesson ideas, resources and activities.

Resources from: Sharifah A.R(2011) HBMT1103, INTRODUCTION TO MATHEMATICS EDUCATION (Nor Hawan Misran & Rubaidah Ismail & Murugiah Velayutham & Dr Yeoh P.C) THEORY AND PRACTICE OF ICT IN PRIMARY MATHEMATICS EDUCATION, 7, 150-152Compare and Contrast

Compare and contrast of three ICT resources in teaching and learning primary math in terms of similarities and advantages. There are three ICT resources I used to compare and contrast:

1. Interactive whiteboard2. Math Learning Computer Software3. Web-based Resources

Web-based ResourcesFree of ChargesVarieties of exercisesCommunicate GloballyIntegral Chapters/Topics3Math LearningComputer Software:Answer providedSteps to solveInteresting Audio & GraphicE-teacher21Interactive Whiteboard:colorfulInterestingAble to playSimilarities of the three ICT resources:Innovative & CreativeEasy to attract attention of the students

1. Interactive whiteboard

An interactive whiteboard (IWB), is a large interactive display that connects to a computer. A projector projects the computer's desktop onto the board's surface where users control the computer using a pen, finger, stylus, or other device. The board is typically mounted to a wall or floor stand.Uses for interactive whiteboards may include: Runningsoftwarethat is loaded in the connectedPC, such as aweb browsersorsoftwarethat used in the classroom. Capturing and saving notes written on a whiteboard to the connected PC Capturing notes written on agraphics tabletconnected to the whiteboard Controlling the PC from the white board usingclick and drag,markup. Using anAudience Response Systemso that presenters can poll a classroom audience or conduct quizzes, capturing feedback onto the whiteboard

Students can interact with the board whereby they can play the computer software through the touchable screen on the interactive whiteboard. See figure 1.0 & 1.1Figure 1.0 & Figure 1.1

References: Painter, D Whiting, E and Wolters, B (2005) The Use of an Interactive Whiteboard in promoting interactive teaching and learningBeauchamp, G and Parkinson, J. (2005). Beyond the wow factor: developing interactivity with the interactive whiteboard. School Science Review (86) 316: 97103.

2. Math-Learning Computer Software

There are many advantages of using Math-learning software/programs that need to be considered here. The following is a list of some of these prime benefits:

Math-learning software allows students to continue their revision even after school is over and done with. Even when the teacher have finished teaching some topics, where there are some of the students are weak in mathematics they still able to do their own revision of the same topic in home.

Furthermore, most of the math-learning software has provided answer in their tutorial question. Some even have clearly explained steps-by-steps on how to solve the calculation, which is very helpful for the students when there are no teachers around.

E-learning software can ease the burden of studies and make education much more proactive and interactive. Interesting videos and audio makes learning even funnier than in traditional class sometimes. Most e-learning courses have self-assessment tests at the end of each module, so the student can know how he or she is getting along. This is not the case with physical education, since it is difficult to conduct individual tests. Using e-learning software, such regular assessment tests are commonplace.

3. Web-based Resources

Web-based resources refer to education websites that provide information, education to students or as references for teachers and parents. There are many advantages of using educational websites for both learning and teaching purposes.

First of all, web-based resources provide flexibility of time; it may be used anytime, anyplace as long as there is Internet access.Teachers can design their own teaching schedules within a given time frame. Besides, there are various tutorial questions, references; information can be found around Internet, which turns out to be the great resources for teaching material.

Besides, there are many educational websites are free of charges. It could be the lowest cost consuming ICT resources of all. All the things need to do is just find a suitable material for the students from the website. Or, the teachers can give the particular website address to the students and they can surf it themselves.

The following websites are the ideal websites for learning and teaching purpose:

1. Top Marks

URL: http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Interactive.aspx?cat=1 The site examines the numbers through counting activities and games. It demonstrates how the number is written. Besides, it has clearly classified categories from each math topic to another. And it has different level of difficulties for different ages from year 1 until year 6 or above.

2. Internet 4 Classrroms: Elementary Math ResourcesURL: http://www.internet4classrooms.com/math_elem_index.htmThis is a free Web portal for teachers, parents and students for all ages, who want to find high-quality, free Internet resources to use in classroom instruction, developing project ideas, reinforcing specific subject matter areas both in class and at home and even for online technology tutorials.

3. Teaching IdeasURL: http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/maths/contents.htmThis website contains a wide range of teaching ideas which include free lesson ideas, resources and activities.

4.0 Selection and justification for choice of ICT resources

After discussing with all the various ICT resources, Im going to use one of the mathematic topics in primary year 4 to show how to apply 2 ICT resources into the teaching activity. Each of the ICT resources is for teaching a class of high achievers and another class of low achievers.

The math topic I chose to teach is the 1st topic in year 4 math textbook, Whole Numbers to 100 000. I will be using part of the whole topic learning area include addition with the highest total of 100 000 and subtraction within the range of 100 000.

4.1 Interactive Whiteboards for Low AchieversI will be using interactive whiteboard to demonstrate how addition and subtraction works to the low achievers. By using the interesting graphic and audio, those who are not interested in mathematic could be attracted and be more focusing on the lesson. Additional computer software are also needed in order to achieve this teaching method, we need a projector projects the computer's desktop onto the board's surface where we can use a laser pen to control the computer. Math-learning software or educational websites are needed too.

There are some students are classified as a group of visual learning students, their attention will be more focusing on visual than words, which mean teachers need to use graphical or video contents to attract them. And usually traditional teaching method is very boring for them; hence their academic result may not as good as the high achievers. Hence, the ICT choice to teach the low achievers will be interactive whiteboard combine with the math-learning computer software.

4.2 Web-based Resources for High Achievers

Likewise, the same ICT resource (Interactive Whiteboard) to teach low achievers can also be used to teach the high achievers. However, I will change the content into their understanding standard. Hence, I chose to use web-based resources to teach the high achievers. This is because web-based resources have more variety and range of tutorial question which can improve the learning of the high achievers even more.The example used to teach low achievers might be too easy for the high achievers; hence, teachers should change the teaching contents into another level which suitable for majority of the students.

Conclusion

In conclusion, teachers should learn how to use ICT wisely in teaching activity. For students nowadays mostly prefer ICT learning method than traditional way, usually traditional teaching method is boring and less interesting than ICT teaching. In order to master the usage of ICT resources, teachers should always updated with latest teaching ideas, where they should also improve themselves by learning from others instead of just using the old-fashion way to teach hi-tech students.

References:Sharifah A.R(2011) HBMT1103, INTRODUCTION TO MATHEMATICS EDUCATION (Nor Hawan Misran & Rubaidah Ismail & Murugiah Velayutham & Dr Yeoh P.C) THEORY AND PRACTICE OF ICT IN PRIMARY MATHEMATICS EDUCATION, 7, 146-147.

Sharifah A.R(2011) HBMT1103, INTRODUCTION TO MATHEMATICS EDUCATION (Nor Hawan Misran & Rubaidah Ismail & Murugiah Velayutham & Dr Yeoh P.C) THEORY AND PRACTICE OF ICT IN PRIMARY MATHEMATICS EDUCATION, 7, 147-148.

Sharifah A.R(2011) HBMT1103, INTRODUCTION TO MATHEMATICS EDUCATION (Nor Hawan Misran & Rubaidah Ismail & Murugiah Velayutham & Dr Yeoh P.C) THEORY AND PRACTICE OF ICT IN PRIMARY MATHEMATICS EDUCATION, 7, 150-152

http://www.slideshare.net/internscpu/trends-in-math-teachingTrends in math teaching

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Interactive.aspx?cat=30interactive whiteboard

http://www.resourcesunlimited.com/Advantages_and_Disadvantages_of_Web-based_Learning.aspAdvantages and Disadvantages of Web-based Learning by Barbara Stennes, CSP

http://www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/cheer/ch19/lovett.pdfComparative Advantage Learning Software: Application (Off-line)Software with Assessment Capabilities, John Lovett, Department of Economics, Texas Christian Universityhttp://www.teachingideas.co.uk/maths/contents.htm Teaching Ideas

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