Question

1. (a) Some school of thoughts were of the view that multiple methods should be employed in assessing pupils in mathematics. As a teacher to be, what is your stand in relation to this? Support your opinion in this context with at least three strong elaborated points. [20 marks) (b) Describe an activity that you can use to take children through learning the concept of big and little. [20 marks] 2. (a) Noise has been identified as one of the distractors of a lesson. As a teacher, discuss at least three (3) the mechanisms you can put in place to avoid noise in the teaching of your lesson? [18 marks) (6) Differentiate between the following as used in prenumber work: i) Sorting and classifying [3 marks] ii) Matching and paring [3 marks iii) cardinal number and ordinal number [3 marks] iv) number and numeral [3 marks) 3. (a) State the skills of numeration and briefly discuss how you will take a pupil through. [20 marks) (b) List three (3) identified driven forces of number concept development and discuss any two (2) of them [10 marks)

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PN. 3 13 (9) skills of Numeration! Numeracy is the Abality to Reason and to apply simple numerical Concepts. Basic numeracy skills consist of comprehending fondamental Arithmetical operations like Addition, subspaction, multiplication and division, B ) Driven Forces of Number Concept 4 ) Competition in the Industry (2) potential of new entrants in to the Induspy (3) power of suppliers 4) power of customers (s) threat of substitute products,