IN the beginning there was only diagnostic and summative assessment. Diagnostic assessment was supposed to share power with summative assessment in the classroom but never really attained equality with it not because teachers did
Category: Mathematics education
My issues with Understanding by Design (UbD)
Everybody is jumping into this new education bandwagon like it is something that is new indeed. Here are some issues I want to raise about UbD. I am quoting Wikipedia in
What is scaffolding in education?
Scaffolding is a metaphor for describing a type of facilitating a teacher does to support students learning. Some educational paper lists some of these scaffolding like “breaking the task into
Teaching through Problem Solving
Problem solving is not only the reason for teaching and learning mathematics. It is also the means for learning it. In the words of Hiebert et al: Students should be allowed