| Danial Norjidi |
THE Special Education Unit (SEU) at the Ministry of Education (MoE) yesterday held a workshop on numeracy. The two-day workshop focuses on two comprehensive learning areas – whole numbers and fractions.
Yesterday’s workshop dealt with ‘Topic-Specific Strategies (Whole Numbers)’ and was facilitated by Senior Curriculum Planning Officer, Mathematics, at the Curriculum Planning Division of the Ministry of Education in Singapore, Suriani Othman.
The participants of the workshop include members of the Numeracy Committee, Special Education Needs Assistance (SENA) Teachers, and officers from the Special Education Unit.
Suriani, in her presentation, shared that the objectives of the workshop are to identify and assess students’ learning gaps, recognising and understanding common error patterns and teaching strategies to develop conceptual understanding on whole numbers and fractions.
The numeracy workshop in progress. – AZROL AZMI
The areas covered in the workshop include learning progression in whole numbers, identifying and assessing learning gaps, error patterns and implications to teaching, and teaching strategies to develop conceptual understanding of whole numbers.
She also touched on counting, comparing/ordering, composing, grouping, adding/subtracting and multiplying/dividing, while also incorporating hands-on activities.
The SEU explained in a press release that the workshop was organised “to introduce a variety of teaching strategies to help students in mastering essential mathematical skills, as well as to provide a hands-on approach especially in the management of such students”.
The workshop will continue into its second and final day today, and will come to a conclusion with a closing ceremony this afternoon.
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