{"id":277507,"date":"2022-09-08T11:01:48","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T07:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/?p=277507"},"modified":"2024-02-19T12:17:19","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T08:17:19","slug":"myp-maths-7-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/2022\/09\/08\/myp-maths-7-9\/","title":{"rendered":"MYP Maths 7-9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2021\/09\/maxresdefault-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-206830 alignleft lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2021\/09\/maxresdefault-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/169;\" \/> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Maths is like exercise for the brain. MYP maths is important as we learn why and how maths evolves to help us solve real-life problems. The skills we learn here are crucial for success later in grades 11-12. I generally don&#8217;t give homework as we do most exercises in class. But I have noticed some students need some extra time. <em>In that case they need to finish their work at home<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>You can help your child by observing the following:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>don&#8217;t do their work. As parents your input should be minimal.<\/li>\n<li>Ensure they are working with no distractions from phones, iPads and TV. (take them away if necessary)<\/li>\n<li>They should not be working for more than 15-30 minutes on maths.<\/li>\n<li>Encourage writing and reading actively to promote literacy and numeracy.<\/li>\n<li>Writing is a particular challenge as most information is electronic. But encourage your children to WRITE notes. In DP, you will have 2-3 hour exams that are written! So this skill needs to be developed. Also there is ample research that shows that writing encourages long term memory retention and learning.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Maths is like exercise for the brain. MYP maths is important as we learn why and how maths evolves to help us solve real-life problems. The skills we learn here are crucial for success later in grades 11-12. I generally don&#8217;t give homework as we do most exercises in class. But I have noticed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":711,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,30,192,31,32,15,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grade-6","category-grade-7","category-myp","category-grade-8","category-grade-9","category-secondary-maths","category-grades"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/711"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}