LESSON PLAN
Subject
Mathematics
Class:
1SD4
Unit
Arithmetic
Date:
29 February 2016
Topic
Approximation and Estimation
Time:
1115 1215
Prior Knowledge
Students should already know:
1. how to round off numbers to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000
Instructional Objectives
By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
1. round off numbers to a required number of decimal places
Tim
e
Lesson Development
Introduction OR Pre-activity
5
mins
Settling down of class
10
mins
Recap
Teacher to recap on rounding off numbers to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000
by calling on some students to answer.
Key points to note:
- What is the 10/100/1000th place of a number
- Steps to take to rounding off numbers
- Rounding off the same number to different place value might result in
different answers.
- In such a scenario, the question does not lie in which is right or wrong, but
which is more accurate and when do we require such accurate answers
Lesson Development OR Main Activities
Rationale (optional)
Resources
15
mins
Rounding off to a number of decimal places
PowerPoint Slides,
worksheet
Teacher to go through the following concepts:
- Motivation behind the idea of rounding off to decimal places
- Counting the number of decimal places a number has
- Steps to take to round off to 1, 2, 3 and more decimal places
- Key point to emphasise:
1) The final answer has to contain the required number of decimal
places
2) How to know when to round up or down
10
mins
Doing of Practices
Students to try out Example 1, Example 2, Try It! Question 1 and Try It!
Question 2 of the worksheet.
Teacher to go through the answer and highlight common mistakes such as
Example 1c, where some students might just write 3 instead of 3.0 as an
answer.
15
mins
Teacher to go through Try It! Question 3, 4 and 5 and highlight how to key
the expression into the calculator to get the answer, with the emphasis on
keying in the brackets too.
Closure and Consolidation OR Post-Activity
PowerPoint Slides
5
mins
Teacher to go reiterate the point on how to round off numbers to a required
number of decimal places and also to assign homework questions that is to
be submitted the following lesson.
Reflections (Choose 1 aspect of the lesson to reflect on positive or negative one. It can be written in point form not more than 1 page)
1. What happened? (What did my students do? What did I do?)
2. Why? (Why did I think things happened this way? Why did I choose to act the way I did?)
3. So what? (What have I learnt from this?)
4. Now what? (What do I want to remember to think about in a similar situation? How do I want to act in future?)
NOTE: General guidelines for a double-period lesson about 5 pages, excluding references and
worksheets/resources (Times New Roman, font size 12)
2015, NIE, Office of Teacher Education (OTE), Practicum
