Teaching Circumference of a circle by Integrating ICT, for 7th grade students

Circumference of a circle 

Teaching the concept of circumference of a circle in mathematic has always been a challenge to me. So, I took advantage of the ICT, where various lessons on circumference of a circle is presented by different mathematics teachers for different grades in many forms like Video, images, Pdf. Etc. I browsed in the internet and selected the most relevant video lesson for my 7^th grade students. The video was used during the lesson development phase for the content delivery.  Students were taken to the school IT lab. Then they were made to sit in their respective groups facing the chalk board. The lesson was then presented to them through OHP in the IT lab. Students watched the video lesson for two times; during the first round they watched and observed the demonstration and listened to the explanations.

Subsequently, they made note on circumference of a circle as enunciated below:The Circumference, C, is the perimeter of a circle or distance around a circle.Circumference of a Circle = 2 πr,  where the value of  π  = 3.14, r is the radius of a circle.

Circumference of a Circle, C = π × d, where the value of π = 3.14, d is the diameter of a circle.

Next, students were asked to have discussion and share their understanding among themselves in their own table team through RoundRobin, one of the Kagan’s Active Learning strategy. As the students’ shared their understanding most of them exhibited that effective learning has taken place as they were relating to the objects they see in circular shapes in our everyday life. Students were then made to solve some questions from their text book. When enquired about the day’s lesson, all the students shared that they enjoyed learning as fun, more over it was like watching their favorite movie. Students also shared learning is easy when we use ICT facilities.

The modern students especially in the urban do enjoy a better access to ICT facilities in various forms which helps them to use in their academic learning.

Therefore, I am confident to say that meaningful learning on circumference of a circle was enjoyable and my teaching was made easy by using ICT. So, I am really excited to teach many more lessons in different grades for various subjects through ICT integration.

Lastly, to share one of the primary challenges encountered during the lesson was the large number of students; difficult to manage 50 students in the IT lab. However, despite dearth of facilities and remoteness of the places of schools, every teacher must strive to make use of the ICT facilities and integrate its applications in teaching learning process. This shall definitely break the monotony of traditional teaching style into more effective, meaningful, active and creative teaching learning experience.