Question

Write two examples of situation one from the area of measurement and other from the area of fractions which illustrate the difference between an adult’s and a child’s way of thinking. Describe an activity to minimize the adult-child gap that show up in the primary class room.

Answer 1

Solution:

Solve by measurement:

The length of the segment AB is cm. Why is the fourth part of this segment equal?

What is the length of three-fourths?

Solve by fractions:

The length of the segment AB is 12 cm. Why is 1/4 of this segment equal? What is

the length of 3/4?

It is recommended to formulate the concept of fractions in three main stages:

1) first, children learn the actual fragmentation (division) of various specific objects at the part level; form fractions;

2) then the children do the same work already on the drawings (drawings of circles, segments);

3) children operate on the imagination.

Answer:

- thinking arises as a means of solving

the practical problems facing the child in the subject activity;

- in solving the practical problems combines subject actions with mental, which causes the emergence of rational ways of action.