100 M&Ms (aka mistakes & misconceptions)

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Name of Team
RightTheWrongs
Title of Project
100 M&Ms (aka mistakes & misconceptions)
Facilitator
Phua-Tan Gek Hoon
Team Leader
Yeo Pih Tai Helen
Secretary
Linda Chang Chin Yoon
Members
Chew Mui Fong
Sophia Lim Wan Jie
Initiated on (date)
1 Feb 2017
Completion date
30 August 2017
Objectives/Targets
-         To collate a list of 100 common conceptual errors by level by topic for students (in conjunction with NY100 Heartbeats)
-         To highlight why they are wrong and how they should be done
-         To compile these into a big mind map in brochure form to be given to every NY girl and share with cluster schools W6 as well.
-         To source for sponsorship for printing of the brochures
-         To include these compilations in lesson notes in 2018 & beyond
Implementation Process

Feb – May:
Collect authentic data on students’ mistakes and misconceptions as reflected in their daily work, quizzes, tests and MYE. Each team member is assigned to collect data from one level. (S1-S4)

Jun:
Do error analysis for all errors collected and categorise them by topic. Key in error analyses in a table form in Word Doc to include the question, what the student did, what went wrong and why, and how it should be done and why.

July:
Check all the entries in Word Doc for accuracy and contact Shinglee for sponsoring the printing of the mind maps in brochure form.

August:
Work with Shinglee on design of mind map and confirm the layout and check the sample produced online before actual printing is done.

End-August:
2000 copies of the final product ‘100 M&Ms’ are sent to NYGH and each NYGH is given a  copy as a gift from the Math Dept in conjunction with the school’s 100th anniversary celebrations.

Sep:
Mind map is shared with W6 cluster schools.

Oct- Nov:
Refining soft copy on Word Doc to prepare to share with W6 Cluster schools and to ‘decentralise’ the 100 M&Ms into the respective lesson notes (by topic) for 2018 so that each set of lesson notes will feature some common mistakes and misconceptions for that topic.


Extent of Improvement/
Targets met
We managed to get sponsorship from Shinglee Publishers to print for us the brochures/mind maps (2000 copies) in color, with free editorial services, and they also helped us with the design of the layout FOC. This could save us at least $5000.

The completed and printed mind maps were delivered to our school before the EOYs just in time for the students to use for revision. They were distributed to all NYGH girls (Sec 1-4) through their subject teachers and some copies were also shared with the W6 cluster schools Math HODs, including HCI and SOTA.

The cluster schools were very impressed by the product and it usefulness and have since requested for soft copy of the error analyses (in original tabulation Word doc format) to be shared with them. Mrs Phua-Tan GH will follow up on this.

Pls see attached pics of the brochure/mind map. A hard copy is attached too.









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