Adding Colours To Mathematics Lessons
By Sonia K

Bandar Seri Begawan - Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD) will be organising a pubic lecture entitled `Making Mathematics Come Alive in the Classroom' at 9 am on November 17, at the UBD Chancellor Hall Lecture Theatre.

The lecture - organised by the Department of Science and Mathematics Education, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Institute of Education, UBD - will be facilitated by John Suffolk, a senior lecturer from the department.

The Mathematics that most students experience in school is learnt as a succession of tricks to be applied to solve examination questions routinely and without understanding.

This is neither interesting nor successful. Project work as part of the secondary examination system could be a stimulus to the development of greater understanding, but there is a lot than the teaching can do within the present framework to make Mathematics learning more interesting.

Much of the talk will involve participants experiencing enjoyable examples on ways of learning topics using simple equipment such as paper and even themselves.

Admission to the lecture is free and is open to parents, education officers, primary and secondary and teachers, and interested parties. Further information is obtainable by contacting 2463001 (Ext 1586 or 1545). -- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin

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