This week in our Grade 7 mathematics class, I witnessed extraordinary breakthroughs that truly showcase the power of putting students first. At Thinking Tools, we are committed to excellence, and to kick off the 2024 academic year, we initiated mathematics…
The concept of colour coding as a study method has been widely misunderstood. The brain doesn’t function in isolated compartments; rather, it operates in interconnected and integrated ways, seeking relationships, analogies, and causal links between concepts. Encouraging students to rely…
Is your child empowered to become a world-class problem-solver? As a parent, you should ask whether your child is being taught in a behaviouristic or constructivist way. The behaviourist approach, for example, in maths teaching sets a scene to let…
Thinking Tools has a unique fresh view on grasping maths Traditionally maths is taught as steps that must be followed. Each type of sum has its own sets of steps or recipes that must be followed. When maths is seen…
Joe: “Miss, I do not understand the sum.” Teacher: “Joe, what do you not understand?” Joe: “I don’t know Miss.” Teacher: “Joe, if you can’t tell me what you do not understand, I can’t help you” Joe does not understand,…
Self-directed learning can never be content, or curriculum driven. Self-directed learning is brain or thinking driven. When a student says: “I am going to study biology – specifically the circularly system.”, it spells out motivation, not self-directed learning. When the…
The Thinking Tools teacher course is the only program in the world attending to the role of the chronosensor. We are born with a chronosensor (chrono means time) in the brain, which is responsible for gathering chronological and sequencing data,…
Like an embroidery, mathematics has a front and a back end. The completed sum is the front of the embroidery. This is the showing off part of the embroidery. This is the end teachers think they can explain to learners.…
Traditional teaching promotes the idea of making summaries. Making summaries means making information less and less. This means during learning the brain is trained to reduce information. Assessment to the contrary expects from students to expand information to obtain more…
