Question

Some learners in the intemediate phase struggle to make sense of the relations between numbers in arithmetic pattern. Give 4 crucial steps in the process of helping learners

Answer 1

Solution:

The crucial steps in the process of helping learners:

• conceptual understanding of the core knowledge required in the practice of teaching;
• fluency in carrying out basic instructional routines;
• strategic competence in planning effective instruction and solving problems that arise during instruction;
• adaptive reasoning in justifying and explaining one’s instructional practices and in reflecting on those practices so as to improve them; and a
• productive disposition toward mathematics, teaching, learning, and the improvement of practice.