DUAL LANGUAGE PROGRAMME: MATHEMATICS

SLOT 3:

Managing activities
Title : Managing Activities

Synopsis :This session exposes course participants to manage activities through the given tasks. The session also enables the
course participants to improve their English language by actively involving them in preparing models as teaching
aids.Through role playing as presenters and managers of activity, participants improve their proficiency in the language.
In the second activity, participants are required to give their interpretations of the quotations given.This activity
encourages them to think critically and to be creative in their interpretations of the quotations and indirectly enables them
to think out of the box.

Learning Outcomes :At the end of this session participants would be able to
1. use English effectively to manage mathematical activities
2. work collaboratively in a group through the activities .
3. increase their level of confidence in using the language.
4 think critically and creatively in the implementation of the
activities.

Duration : 2 hours

Resources : Please refer to the resources column in the table below.

Delivery Mode : Hands-on activities, minds-on activites and discussion.

DUAL LANGUAGE PROGRAMME: MATHEMATICS
SLOT 3: TITLE: MANAGING ACTIVITIES
OBJECTIVES: MANAGE ACTIVITIES IN MATHEMATICS THROUGH PROPER LANGUAGE USAGE /STRUCTURES

DURATION CONTENT ACTIVITY RESOURCES

DUAL LANGUAGE PROGRAMME: MATHEMATICS
2 HOURS Managing activities: Activity A: Starter Resource 3A : Feedback video
 Promote Relax and watch the video Resource 3A, the
critical
thinking importance of receiving and giving feedback
 Promote (5 minutes)
problem
solving Activity B: (80 minutes) Resources 3B. Construction of
 Provide Activities - nets of cube,
Group Activity
justifications dodecahedron, tetrahedron,
 Develop self Instructions octahedron and pop up cards
confidence (print out resource materials for
1. Participants are divided into 4 groups
activity)
2. Each group is given a construction activity.
Group 1 – Cube and Dodecahedron
Group 2 – Tetrahedron and Octahedron
Group 3 – Pop-up card with multiple techniques
Group 4 - Pop-up card with multiple techniques
3. Each group construct their object.
4. Group 1 (role:students) presents while Group 2 (role:
lecturers) will manage the presentation. Group 3
(role:students) presents while Group 4 (role: lecturers)
will manage the presentation. Then Groups exchange
roles (Group 2 present, Group 1 manage; Group 4
present, Group 3 manage)
Resource 3C.pptx Mathematical
5. The group that presents will explain how to construct quotations
Mahjong papers are to be provided by
their object or talk about the object.
facilitators.
6. The group that manages the activity will ask, guide,
lead and manage responses.

Activity C - (30 minutes)

Interpretation of Mathematical quotations.