Maths classes
in a
”factory”
Adult learning
• Cooperation between teacher and student(s)
• From the students’ experience and interests
regarding both subjects and materials
Adult learning
• “The complete human being”
– family life
– spare time
– holidays
– working life
– society
Teaching methods
What do the students
• need
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•
privately – children, budget,
for the ”production” in the ”factory”
the future
• job
• education
feel like learning
The students become aware of
Maths in their every day:
•read small/large numbers
•grading the articles – wieght, size etc
•navigate in the storeroom
•estimate numbers of boxes
•workinghours in decimals
•count eg articles
•adjust the machines
•numbers of articles
•date
•blendings
•time
•measure loss
•shopping
•maps
•patterns
•phone numbers
•plans
•temperature
•invoices
•logbooks
•recipes
•adverts
•timesheets
•directions
•timetables
•budget
•bulidings: silo
•payslips - wages, taxes
•diagrams
•??????????
Materials
1. The students’ own materials
- recipes, time tables, payslips, maps, match box,
mug, tins, ring, knitting pattern, lunch box ……….
2. Materials in the factory
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MONTANA
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Working with elderly people
Materials
3. ”In the Hand” (concreate materials):
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money – currency
time tables
cubics
•
–
for the multiplication table
newspaper
Departure from Rønne 10:25
YstadVC11:45
14:05YstadVC15:25
15:40YstadHO18:20
17:55YstadVC19:15
21:35YstadVC22:55
23:00KøgeHO05:30
-5
6
3
-4
Materials
- barometer
positive and negative
numbers
Materials
4. Drudgeries or theory from a book
= practice for future education
Today’s Mathematical problem
Example:
The Pope has died
Today’s Mathematical problem
• How big are the 3 silos of Danisco?
• How many?
Today’s Mathematical problem
• Weather
forecast
Algorithms
The gardener and the
glasshouse
1,5 m
2,5 m
2m
”How to to be sure you have
a right angel”
Algorithms
• A wordblind student: ”How I come from
mm to cm”:
• 342 mm = 342
cm
Classroom
1. In the factory
•
”you live here”
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–
sorroundings
norms
principles
expectations
breaks
2. In the school
Glamsbjerg
Aase Nielsen
__Nørregade 42, 5620
Glamsbjerg, Denmark,
045 63 72 20 80_________________________