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Math Anxiety
Most students have a challenge learning Math, and this depends on the strategies that the teacher uses. Assessment is joint in teaching the subject (Kostos & Shin, 2010). It refers to the settings and tasks that give the students opportunities to demonstrate the skills, understanding, and application of content within a context allowing for continued growth and learning.
Several types of assessments are used to evaluate the development and student learning. For instance, the teacher can use self-evaluation, peer and teacher tools like rubrics, and checklists when teaching Math (Moon, 2019). Student journals are also standard. They are examples of assessments that Math teachers can use to examine the affective and cognitive domains as the students learn.
Journal in Maths is a tool to help make communications between the teacher and students easy throughout the learning process and for the progress to be evaluated. Selling the idea of journaling can be done in specific ways. The first is by creating a good relationship with the students and introducing journaling slowly (Kostos & Shin, 2010). The teacher can also be consistent by regularly checking journals to help the students become more comfortable with the practice. He should also give the students direction by making them understand what it entails and what he expects of them.
In addition, some students may ridicule the practice, and others may...…with the students to monitor and reflect on the processes of creating journals and understand how to use different modes of presentations. The tracking and monitoring also cerates confidence among the students since the students can reference the earlier work in the journals (Tippett, n.d). The other way is by being consistent.
The teacher can also use visuals and images. As the students come across many visuals and graphs, they understand a concept better. Using images in the journals helps make the students understand a concept better. The teachers also get a chance to learn about the unplanned learning insights, and they get to know how to teach the students about it since they…
References
Kostos, K., & Shin, E. (2010). Using math journals to enhance second graders’ communication of mathematical thinking. Early Childhood Education Journal, 38(3), 223-231. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10643-010-0390-4
Moon, J. A. (2019). Journals in teaching and learning in higher education. Learning Journals, 57-70. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429448836-6
Tippett, J. (n.d.). Math journals: From math talk to the home-school connection, a handbook for teachers of grades 1-6. https://doi.org/10.24124/2013/bpgub1576
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