Today I gave my grade 8 class a problem solving question (again), still there are struggling. The problem is: Magda spent 2/3 of her pocket money on sweets. If she spent 54c, how much did she have?
I was really shocked and I had to use R3, 30c, etc. They were then able to figure out the trick taking 54c divide by 2 and be able to get 27c and conclude that, Magda had 81c.
This is one challenge still about the language usage in mathematics. I really believe that there is something missing out in our math teaching, hence the poor results in most areas.
I am one of the people who believe in doing something, that is why I would like to take a challenge of trying language related problems with my class so as to convince a reasonable skeptic that language does matter.
Hope hear your comments.
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