Appreciation certificates for Maths Quizzie high scorers.

6th October 2011, Thursday- Sayyidina Hasan Secondary school held a certificate presentation ceremony for students who are sitting for their BGCE ‘O’ Levels in October 2011. An important part of this ceremony was the award of appreciation certificates to students who did exceptionally well in the Maths Quizzie Programme this year.

Mathematics Quizzes Sharing Session during fourth Staff meeting

The Fourth staff meeting was held on 21st September 2011 in the afternoon at Multipurpose hall.

This Sharing Session was done by Madam Susie Soh (head of upper secondary) and Cikgu Norashihah (head of lower secondary).

The items discussed during the sharing session included:

-The aim of Mathematics Quizzes
-The duration of the Mathematics Quizzes
-The results of Pre-test(before the mathematics quizzes were done)
-The results of Post-test (after the mathematics quizzes were done)
-Information on the analysis of the results showed that the aim of mathematics quizzes was achieved.
-Information that the Maths Department has identified how to improve the structure of the Mathematics Quizzes and this will be applied for next year's Quizzes

The Maths Department wishes to thank all teachers at Sayyidina Hasan for their co-operation in making the Mathematics Quizzes success.

Travel Games

Attached are the blank templates for the Travel Game and examples that I've made. Do share if you make new ones and if possible send me photos of the students trying on the games.

Thank you.

Sincerely,
Haji Redzuan Hj Botty
Sekolah Menengah Sayyidina Umar Al-Khattab


Please click on the link below for more information:

https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=1Ks84KsaJukWNH91-10gvFkq6lxkB_u0ClfjQkY99cdf9Nf9FzwHmmhZiLud4&hl=en_US&authkey=CNTewOoN

https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=1rBQYQUHOBPNDjbSwFFH-uMKZ8ChQM9lqQWcVh6MJ_0lihlsa3AAzA_Fm-918&hl=en_US&authkey=CLXMh5ME

https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=1jqA-wI6xXYRrZ3cwHdJ4CXj4RgFfZQkGPyfdKZb_-Fa2m0fdWwiIErcBKcJ2&hl=en_US&authkey=CJPJu7wL

https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=13iB90mcZkHFrzs-AL16mVDk0cCu6OJkph1uSPoy5qbVkCHut2Y2sJ1U-g0O5&hl=en_US&authkey=CJn1icMK

Dear teacher if you have problem with the link, please send your email to mathematicssayhasan@gmail.com so that i can share via gmail. TQ :)

Post Test for Year 7- year 10

Post test will have to be done starting 27/06/2011 to 9/07/2011. For more info please refer Teacher Norashihah Hj Mohamad. Thank You :)

THE SECONDARY SCHOOL MATHEMATICS OLYMPIAD PRIZE AND CERTIFICATE PRESENTATION CEREMONY 2011

Muhd Aizat Bin Kamal Hisham from Year 9SCI-4 was in second place receiving Silver Award in the Maths Olympiad 2011

2nd MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENTAL MEETING 2011

Date: 4th May 2011
Time: 1.00 pm -3.00pm
Venue: Conference Room

SHARING SESSION ON THE 15th ASIAN TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE IN MATHEMATICS

Held at the Conference Room Sekolah Menengah Sayyidina Hasan on the 20th April 2011.

Presenters from Cg Hjh Norashihah Hj Mohammad (SMSay Hasan), Cg Rina Ajak (SM Menglait) and Cg Azimatul Ihsani Hj Moksin (Maktab Duli)

Brunei Common Assessment Tasks (BCATs)

Why BCATs?

The reason for this is because the School Based Assessment (SBA) over-assessed the students. For SBA, we calculate classworks, homeworks, mini tests and then we have topical tests. After finishing year 8, most of the students obtained lower marks in Maths because of their c/w, h/w and mini tests. So this affected their year 9.

We complained.... so CDD came up with SBAfL (School Based Assessment for Learning), this is when they came up with the idea of creating tasks and assessing students using RUBRICS (will blog about this in detail next time.. for now you can google rubrics). At first, they let the teachers come up with their own tasks and rubrics. --> it didn't work because some of the tasks might be too simple or too hard and some school didn't even bother to do it because it is difficult to come up with the appropriate rubrics.. so it is not fair to be used as an assessment.

which is WHY they come up with BCATS.

BCATs = Brunei Common Assessment Tasks.

The title itself is self-explanatory.

Brunei = whole of Brunei Secondary school will participate.

Common = standardised or the same for all the school.

Assessment = assessing the students abilities in terms of Knowledge & Understanding, Thinking Skills & Problem Solving, and Communication Skills.

Tasks = activity based tasks which can range from investigating LCM, arranging a picnic, climbing mountain, measuring angles using map of Jerudong Park. The tasks are currently designed by CDD (Curriculum Development Department). The activities are designed to measure students' abilities.

We use rubrics for assessing the tasks and they will only be given grades and feedbacks instead of marks.

Personal comment:

I have done BCATs1 which consist of task 1 and task 2. Task 1 was on investigating LCM of consecutive numbers. It was a bit difficult and students didn't really enjoy doing that. Task 2 was on organizing a night at Serasa Beach. Students' enjoy planning the trip. Some of them even use powerpoint presentation. It was quite impressive.

Currently, we are planning on administering BCATs2 which also consist of task 1 and task 2. But i can't reveal the tasks here... not yet :) will update more with photos and maybe some videos of students doing BCATs 2.


Done by,

Rosie.

Lesson Study

Students doing individual classwork during a lesson study session conducted by Cg Iza Faizil. The topic was on function focusing especially on inverse function using the U-turn method.