The Planning of yearly semester Lesson Yearly Plan One of the first instructional plan that you need

to do at the beginning of each academic year is the yearly plan and the semester plan. A yearly plan is an overall framework that arranges all topics in an intended instructional sequence, whereas a semester plan contains a more detailed description of the content of these topics for a semester. A common practice is to divide a yearly plan into two semester plans. Some guidelines for you to consider when preparing your yearly/semester plan are as follows: Identify your pupils background. Study the relevant mathematics curriculum specifications and identify the learning areas (topics), learning outcomes (skills) and contents to be taught. Study the school calendar and identify the number of schooling weeks, lesson-hours available, and expected intrusion to your lessons. Identify the teaching and learning strategies. Identify relevant resources. Decide and plan for your strategies to evaluate your pupils learning. Integrate various aspects such as moral values, Future Studies, thinking skills, contextual learning into your plan.

There are several formats to do your yearly/semester plan. Reading Assignment 1 will give you some basic ideas on how to do a yearly plan.

Reading Assignment 1 Study the example of a yearly plan given by the Curriculum Development Centre (PPK) in Attachment 1. Summarize the features of the format of this yearly plan. Compare this format with the guidelines for preparing a yearly plan given before this.

Attachment 1 MATHEMATICS YEARLY PLAN ( YEAR TWO )

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TOPIC/LEARNI NG AREAS 1. WHOLE NUMBERS 1.1 Numbers to 1000

LEARNING OBJECTIVES / LEARNING OUTCOMES

REMAR KS

1.1.1 Say and use the number names in familiar contexts i. Say the number names to 1 000. ii. Recognise numerals to 1 000. iii. Count up to 1 000 objects by grouping them in hundreds, tens, fives, twos and ones. 1.1.2 Read and write numbers to 1 000. i. Write numerals to 1 000. ii. Read number words to one thousand. iii. Write number words to one thousand. 1.1.3 Know what each digit in a number represents. i. Recognise the place value of numbers. 1.1.4 Understand and use the vocabulary of comparing and arranging numbers or quantities to 1 000. i. Arrange numbers to 1 000 : a. Count on and count back in ones. b. Count on and count back in twos. c. Count on and count back in fives. d. Count on and count back in tens. e. Count on and count back in hundreds. ii. Compare two numbers and say which is more or less. iii. Arrange numbers in order : a. Compare the numbers; and b. position the numbers on a number line. 1.1.5 Understand and use ordinal numbers in different contexts. i. Say ordinal numbers from eleventh to twentieth. ii. Use ordinal numbers in different contexts.

1.2 Addition With The Highest Total Of 1 000

1.2.1 Understand addition as combining two groups of objects. i. Add two numbers without regrouping : a. two 1-digit numbers; b. a 2-digit number and a 1-digit

number; and c. two 2-digit numbers. ii. Add two numbers with regrouping : a. a 2-digit number and a 1-digit number; and b. two 2-digit numbers. iii. Add two numbers without regrouping : a. a 3-digit number and a 1-digit number; b. a 3-digit number and a 2-digit number; and c. two 3-digit numbers. iv. Add three 1-digit numbers.

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