“Tell me and I forget, show me and I remember, involve me and I understand.”
Effective math teaching and learning is achieved through the selective use of a broad range of strategies and tools to meet particular learning needs. Teachers in Houssam Eddine Hariri High School are learners through participating in workshops and developing their mathematical understandings. In May, a workshop was held in Dubai under the title, “The Role of Math in the PYP”.

The goal of the PYP mathematics curriculum is to structure math education so that children experience the enjoyment and fascination of mathematics and see its value and importance as they gain confidence and skills. We believe it is important that students acquire mathematical understanding by constructing their own meaning, through ever-increasing levels of abstraction. It is expected that children will apply previously learned knowledge as they progress through the mathematics curriculum. Students investigate, question, discuss, and justify. Special emphasis is placed on developing a positive attitude towards learning mathematics and relating mathematical concepts to real-life situations. We also believe that a wide range of resources, including manipulatives, is fundamental to the teaching and learning of mathematics because they make mathematics meaningful. Since mathematics is a way of thinking, a language for making meaning, some mathematical concepts are integrated within units of inquiry.

Hiba Zaatari
Grade Three – Homeroom Teacher