Teaching Practice Task 4: From Theory to Practice

Program link: This task is associated to the guidelines of the course EPR 3003 – Mathematics for the
Primary School Teacher Course learning outcomes 2 – Recognize the relationship between how
children learn mathematics with the theories of learning and their psychological impact on learning
math.

Objective: You will identify teaching and learning activities that can be related to behaviorist and
constructivist theories. You will note at least ten activities (for English, Math or Science) that the
teacher or you used. For each activity noted, identify the theoretical perspective and evaluate the
activity for engagement.

Activity observed in Theory Engagement

class

1. Spinner activity This activity Engageable activity.

and Dice activity according to
Piaget theory
in
constructivism
because the
student should
discover and
work. when
they will
discover the
numbers that
they got it and
make it in the
sentence they
will use their
mind to come
out with the
result.
2. Worksheet This activity is Engageable activity.
according according to
students levels: ZPD theory,
because in this
activity the
student will be
answering
several
questions with
several levels
of questions.
So here they
have to
development
their levels.
3. Worksheet: CPA theory Very engageable for student.
multiple strategy include in this
solving math, this activity
worksheet has
because first
several strategies
to solve the the student will
question and the concrete after
teacher was give that will use
material to solve pictorial by
one strategy of drawing after
them. First the that will
student should use
abstract the
this material to
solve the answer.
question(cubes).
Second the
student should
draw the solve.
After that write
the answer.