Dear friends
My research paper is selected for Episteme 4. After the workshops I finished writing it then I sent it to the international conference and they selected it for poster presentation.
the conference is in second week of Jan 2011.
ABSTRACT
This paper is about an exploration of the Ganak* (the open abacus) constructed in order to help children learn more about the decimal number system. The intervention was done in a village school, with grade six children who obviously have been using the numbers. A base 3 game was developed that was based on the Ganak. It was observed that the game gradually brings properties of positional notation system without explicitly taking the children into the complexity of different bases. It was found that children enjoyed playing it, gradually understood the rules and developed their own game for different bases. Games developed by the children indicated that they could grasp the concept, used in abacus. Given the grasp of abacus principle, children could figure out the relation between the face value of digits and the place value of the same for given numbers. The Ganak helped the children in understanding the meaning of “+” and “x” signs in expanded form of numbers.
Research Question
How can I use the idea of the Ganak to teach more about the numerical representation system to grade 6 children in activity based classes?
* The Ganak (the stick abacus) used in Bal Vaigyanik grade 6 – This abacus has thin rods fixed vertically that can fit in exactly 9 beads, for tenth beat remove all the beads and put one bead in next rod.
Regards
Pramod Maithil Eklavya
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment