This time, My classmates and I were accompanied by our Hindi teacher,Miss. Vijayalaxmi Kanate. As I have already decided to proceed with the same profit and loss lesson, I gave them the brief explanation on what I taught them last time and then I taught them the next topic about how to deal with word problems.
Initially, I told them to read question twice and understand the key words used in the question such as selling price, cost price, per kilogram and amount of profit or loss and also what the question is asking. I told them to write the information, which is given in the question first and then start solving.
There were questions in their textbooks, which were simple and direct such as cost price and selling price were given and one was supposed to find loss or profit. But still, understanding question is big deal as my students were finding little difficulty to understand and write in the proper format. So I dictated them the requirement and method according to question. I wrote in their notebook the format also so that they can refer to it while solving the questions.
Then after solving few questions, I taught them a Hindi lesson about ‘Happy Family’. And then I gave them some questions based on it.
This time, their response was better than last time and I felt now they were much comfortable with the profit and loss lesson.
I learned that practice and understanding are two major issues while dealing with questions. Since, this profit and loss unit is large, I will continue with it for next time also.
2 comments:
Dear Trisha,
I am happy to see your involvement in teaching. You are taking so much effort to make these children to understand the topic. If you work on right direction, it will be more joyful for you & your students too. Use some teaching aids and for that prepare your topic previously, this practice gives you more confidence.
Vijayalaxmi
Thank you so much maam
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