Teaching Approaches and Math Concepts

This is an approach that usually refers to organized learning that takes place in the outdoors.

• Discovery Approach

• Cooperative Learning

• Math-Lab Approach

• Outdoor Math Approach

This approach is also considered as International Learning. Both the teacher and the learner play active roles that can range from guided discovery to free or pure discovery.

• Discovery Approach

• Cooperative Learning

• Math-Lab Approach

• Outdoor Math Approach

This is a method of teaching whereby children in small groups work through an assignment/task card, learn and discover mathematics for themselves.

• Discovery Approach

• Cooperative Learning

• Math-Lab Approach

• Outdoor Math Approach

This is an approach that is helpful in eliminating competition among learners. It encourages them to work together towards common goals. It fosters positive intergroup attitudes in the classroom.

• Discovery Approach

• Cooperative Learning

• Math-Lab Approach

• Outdoor Math Approach

This is a process—an ongoing activity in which we take what we know to discover what we don't know. It involves overcoming obstacles by generating hypo-theses, testing those predictions, and arriving at satisfactory solutions.

• Problem Solving

• Inquiry Teaching

• Demonstration Approach

• Practical Work Approach (PWA)

This involves providing learners with content-related problems that serve as the foci for class research activities. The teacher provides/presents a problem then the learners identify the problem.

• Problem Solving

• Inquiry Teaching

• Demonstration Approach

• Practical Work Approach (PWA)

This is a teaching strategy in which the teacher engages in a learning task than just talking about it. It is the process of teaching someone how to make or do something in a step-by-step process. As you show how, you “tell” what you are doing.

• Problem Solving

• Inquiry Teaching

• Demonstration Approach

• Practical Work Approach (PWA)

The learners in this approach, manipulate concrete objects and/or perform activities to arrive at a conceptual understanding of phenomena, situation, or concept. The environment is a laboratory where the natural events/phenomena can be subjects of mathematical or scientific investigations.

• Problem Solving

• Inquiry Teaching

• Demonstration Approach

• Practical Work Approach (PWA)

An approach to teaching that takes real world concepts, information, and skills and creates a game-like experience designed to meet specified goals and outcomes.

• Individualized Instruction using Modules

• Drill

• Game-Based Learning

• Inquiry Teaching

This approach permits the learners to progress by mastering steps through the curriculum at his/her own rate and independently of the progress of other pupils.

• Individualized Instruction using Modules

• Drill

• Game-Based Learning

• Inquiry Teaching