Educator:

Miss Humata

Content Area
Topic
Context

Grade: 10T

School: Marymount R.C high

School

Subject: Mathematical
Literacy
Term : 1
Duration: 45 minutes
Week: 2
Numbers and calculations with numbers
Number formats and conventions
Classroom Layout:

Date: 28/01/2015

In this classroom there are enough seats to seat the 32 learners.

There is blackboard in the classroom which I make use of.
The learners:
The learners in the class all have their own workbooks, but they
do not have textbooks yet so had to make copies for them to do
the exercise.

Lesson Outcomes

At the end of the lesson learners will be able to:

Suggested Resources
Prior Knowledge
Educator activities

Write out numbers in words.

Use logic to answer convention questions.
Black board
Grade 7- 9 Mathematics
Learner
Resources
Assessment
activities
forms/Strategie
s

Introduction
Introduce the topic by
giving them example of
where numbers occur
around us( house
number, till slip and
phone numbers)
Tell learners importance
of numbers (understand
and navigate your way
through everyday
situations from cooking
to banking)
Define format and
convention and explain
todays topic.
(annexure A)
Content Disclosure

Listen and
take notes.

Black board

Direct instruction
method will be
used.

Direct instruction
method will be
used.

Time

10 minutes

Explain number formats

for big numbers using
examples

Explain number formats

for decimal fractions
with examples
Classwork
Do activity 1.1 on page
3 in their textbooks and
activity 1.2 on page 4
from hand outs of
textbook

Listen and
take notes

Black board

Direct instruction
method will be
used when
teaching and
worked examples
in order to insure
that the learners
understand the
content taught.

15 minutes

Textbook
hand outs

Self-assessment
will be done
during marking.

15 minutes

Oral feedback in
order to assess
whether the
learners
understand the
content covered
in the lesson.

5 minutes

Copy the
examples on
their work
books.

Complete the
activity given
correctly and
do corrections

Walk around classroom

to check if they are
busy with their work
Conclusion
Recap on the work
completed and test for
understanding by
asking questions

Explain the homework

to be completed.

Answer the
questions
asked during
the recap
session.
Complete the
homework

Expanded opportunities

Enrichment and extension

Learners will be asked to watch the news tonight

and see which province is the coldest.

The learners will be given extra work

on writing numbers in words.

Special needs/Barriers to learning

Homework

No barriers as they can all see at the black board

and hear correctly.

Complete activity 1.3 and 1.4 on page

8 and 9 in the study & master
mathematical literacy textbook.

Reflections

They did master the outcome of writing numbers in words which they showed by doing
activity 1.1 correctly. The second task which was to do activity 1.2, what I noticed is that they
find it hard to interpret what is given to them. So had to explain to them what they have to do

showing them the key words to look out for when answering conventions. The classroom
they were at I was able to move around and observe what they were doing. We couldnt
finish doing the task so they had to add it to their homework, including activity 1.3 & 1.4 as
originally planned.

Annexure A
Definition 1: Convention - A standard way of doing something.
Definition 2: Format - The way that something appears or is set out.
Explanation of topic
Number formats and conventions refer to the different ways that we write numbers.