Teachers Community of Learning Bangalore South Block 3 Maths Workshop 3 2014 15


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=Workshop III= Date: September 22, 2014

Experiences from Workshop 2
Outcomes from the workshop
 * 1) Practice with Geogebra
 * 2) Use of sliders, input parameters to create Geogebra animations
 * 3) Use of Geogebra for formulating activities for assessment (zeroes of a polynomial)
 * 4) Understanding of how to build algebraic skills (using spreadsheet)

Outcomes vs objectives of the workshop
 * 1) Teachers were introduced to more systematic use of Geogebra
 * 2) Use of Geogebra for formulating activities
 * 3) Use of spreadsheet and an introduction to basics of algebra

Feedback from Workshop 2
 * 1) More practice time with Geogebra/ hands-on activities
 * 2) More practice with internet
 * 3) Difficulty with use of Geogebra (due to mouse issues)
 * 4) Workshop started late and hence limited time
 * 5) Less hands on time for framing activities

Objectives of the third workshop and Agenda

 * 1) Geogebra introduction and use - extension of lessons from last workshop
 * 2) Classroom transaction ideas to focus on conceptual learning
 * 3) refer the TCOL wiki

Workshop discussions and resources
refer the TCOL wiki for mindmap of 'Maths teaching' and for discussions on algebraic expressions

Feedback and closing

 * Way forward and homework
 * 1) Challenges discussed in detail, common to all schools
 * 2) create school ids for sarah akbar
 * 3) take a class with actual students useful. was different kind of a workshop. how to look at teaching differently, so that children can find it useful
 * 4) seeing ranjani's question paper, how to make it differently
 * 5) if we can get more support from department, will be useful - can we get support from beo and diet. need for school level
 * 6) Q paper on koer
 * 7) sarah urdu
 * 8) spreadsheet and wiki
 * 9) hands on time was limited
 * 10) need flow chart kind of resource for all topics like ranjani did in morning


 * 1) 3 workshops can we consolidate
 * 2) also can we come prepared to the workshop, so we connect across workshops, need more holistic approach
 * 3) overall plan needed
 * 4) can have tcol group only for south 3 teachers