T1 W4-6 5N1

I have been teaching them Probability and Matrices for the past three weeks. The students were able to do fairly well on the Test on Probability. The motivation for them to do well is 'not to be in SRP', which is a good motivation if you ask me. When I was about to go to the next topic, I wrote some questions on the whiteboard and gave the students 10 minutes to read their textbook to get the answers. At the end of ten minutes, students were able to give the answers and I think I would do this for the rest of the topics we are going to cover. When students were given time to find the answers to the questions (teachers need to pick out the key things about the chapter), they would be more involved in their own learning. The start of the chapter was smooth sailing. Addition, subtraction and scalar multiplication of matrices is very straight forward and the students were good at it, except for some who were careless. The hard part of this chapter are the interpretation and the multiplication of matrices. Students needed to be guided slowly how to interpret the results and also not to be careless in their multiplication. More practice will be done in week 7 expecially on interpretation nd matrix multiplication.