Teaching Aids and Mathematics Laboratory
Teaching Aids and Mathematics Laboratory
MATHEMATICS LABORATORY
LEC. 6
• Mathematics is a wide-spread material needed by
the human being in his daily life
• Mathematics is a building block for every science
that student can learn it in schools and universities.
• Students usually have difficulties in learning
mathematics due to math abstractness
• Using Teaching Aids (TA) as a tool to help the
instructor in explaining the lecture in the classroom
What are mathematical teaching aids?
1) Teaching aids are large enough to be seen by the students for whom they are
used.
2) Teaching aids are meaningful and they always stand to serve a useful
purpose.
9) Teaching aids are really very useful and can be used in many
lessons and at different class levels.
10) Teaching aids are useful for supplementing the teaching process
but they cannot replace the teacher.
THE ADVANTAGES OF TA
• Developing the level of the student's mind and
thinking.
• Keep all information in the mind students for a
long time.
• Makes the student perform the activities on his /
her own.
• Developing the students’ mind.
• Give full understanding and accuracy of the
lesson.
Cont.
• Supplement in verbal instructions.
• Teaching aids makes learning permanent.
• Teaching aids provide variety.
• Teaching aids are helpful in attracting attention of the
students.
• Teaching aids saves time and energy.
• Teaching aids encourages the healthy classroom interaction.
• Teaching aids helps the teacher to create situations for
teaching the beginners.
• Teaching aids are helpful in creating positive environment for
discipline
• Teaching aids are helpful in meeting individual differences
• Teaching aids helps in providing speech training to the pupils.
• Teaching aids enable the children to retain language items for a
longer time.
• Teaching aids gives vividness to the learning situation.
• Teaching aids makes the abstract ideas concrete and thus help in
making learning more effective.
• Teaching aids provide good substitutes for the real objects as they
make learning equally meaningful.