Course 9 - Activity 5: Share Your Thoughts
A child, when asked to subtract 17-9, wrote 12 as an answer. What does this tell you about the child's thinking and how will you help the learner better understand the concept of subtraction? Share your thoughts.
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DeleteThe child has the conception that only lesser number can be sustracted from the greater number.tge concept of borrowing from tens or hundreds place is to be .made clear to the children by various activities
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ReplyDeleteChild should be clarified the concept of borrowing.
ReplyDeletethe child is doing reverse subtraction. in stead of minusing 9 from 7, child is minusing 7 from 9. concept of borrowing is not clear
ReplyDeleteMay be the child has not understood the concept of borrowing used in subtraction.
ReplyDeleteChild has applied his previous knowledge wherein he/she was taught to subtract smaller digit from bigger.
ReplyDeletechild lacks in seeing place value and digit together ... for understanding concept of place value needs to be cleared first
The child misplaced the numbers.May be the child doesn't know the concept of borrowing.
ReplyDeleteI will try to make child understand subtraction concept with simple methods..Methods like counting with pebbles and sweets..
ReplyDeleteWill make child understand subtraction and concept with simple method
ReplyDeleteThe child may not understand we must put efforts
ReplyDeleteThe child miss placed the number may be the child doesn't know the concept of borrowing
ReplyDeleteI will make the child to understand the easy method of concepts and subtraction
ReplyDeleteEasy method to teach and learn
ReplyDeleteConcept of tens and ones also making groups of tens and ones
DeleteThere should be easy methods to teach children
ReplyDeleteMore drilling required
ReplyDeleteIf the child understands that concept well, he cannot make an error
ReplyDeleteBy give and take method.
ReplyDeleteSubtraction can be ease by foundation numeracy and explaining the concept in different ways as per child's understanding.
ReplyDeleteExplaining the conception in a proper way we can create the environment for child's understanding
ReplyDeleteThe child has not understood the concept of borrowing. But only knows to subtract small number from big number. That has to explained properly and in simple manner to the child.
ReplyDeleteWill revisit teaching learning experience on borrowing concept aby repetition of previous teaching method or with new activity/method
ReplyDeleteReverse subtraction is the issue here. With proper guidance and support child will understand.
ReplyDeleteThe child should know that one should subtract a smaller number from a bigger one.
ReplyDeleteExperiential learning should be given to children.
Give the child 17 one rupee coins and ask to give up 9 coins to you. Now ask the child how many coins left with him?
ReplyDeleteThere can be different possibilities
ReplyDeleteLike the child is adding in 12till he gets the bigger number 17 .
Child is doing reverse counting.
We can give live experiences for subtraction...with the help of concrete objects then introducing place value system in an interesting manner than real life problem solving...
We can teach about substraction by using daily life examples and bu using some activities.
ReplyDeleteThis means the child still didn't learn about substraction. So, we need to give simple example of daily life activities like counting of pencils or toys to substract.
ReplyDeleteIt shows lack of number sense and understanding of the concept.
ReplyDeleteMake the child to understand the word subtraction, and then provide an experience to apply his knowledge on task/ problem
Child has to know about borrowing concept in math.
ReplyDeleteIf a child answers 17-9 as12 ,he/she needs to understand the meaning of subtraction as taking away. Teacher should make him/her reach to the conclusion that 9 ones can't be taken away from 7ones therefore the need of borrowing arises.
ReplyDeleteUnderstanding the basic subtraction rule about what is to be subtracted should be repeated by teacher in the class. This shows that the child lacks the concept of subtraction and how to use borrow if the 1 numeral i.e. minuend is less than the subtrahend.
ReplyDeleteChildren have the conception that only lesser number can be sustracted from the greater number.tge concept of borrowing from tens or hundreds place is to be .made clear to the children by various activities
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