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The second round of Bulahdelah additional
literacy and numeracy customised education (BALANCE) commenced on the
first day of term two, with a new cohort of Year 7, 8 and 9 students
exploring making connections in literacy and fractions in numeracy, as Manning River Times reports.
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| Year 8 students getting involved in the "balance" program. Photo: Manning River Times |
Program co-ordinator, Kim Rigley said students are encouraged to use their existing knowledge and experiences, prior learning and creative thinking in literacy to help them recognise the links to and between different texts, themselves and the world.
“Students participate in group discussions following on from the short text read in class,” she said.
“Prompts are used to encourage students to follow their pathway of thinking and share it with the group...
As for numeracy, students have commenced their
exploration of fractions and the general concepts of math as they are
practiced in everyday life.
“Students have discovered fractions can be related to time, money, measurement, probability, and in the preparation of food, the latter being the most important, according to many students,” Kim explained.
“By relating these real-life everyday actions to math, it is the intention of BALANCE to make math relevant, meaningful and practical in answer to the age old question, “When am I going to use this in life?”
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Source: Manning River Times
