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HOTSMATHS

place Malaysia

Higher Order Thinking Skills & Creative Maths can develop ability to think and solve problem

“This is not a general math tutoring class.” In the classroom HOTSMATHS , we focus on developing children’s high thinking and high quality. In this long-term training process, teachers will focus on the following 12 teaching objectives and gradually develop key skills that affect children’s lives

Overview

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April 2020
We develop children’s Higher Order Thinking skills through creative maths. Let our children: Be a Thinker. Be a Problem Solver.

About the innovation

HOTs Maths: Thinking Training Programme Opening & Strengthening Young Minds with Problem-solving Skills

What we do?

As a parent who cares for the development of your child, you hope to see your little one is:

enthusiastic and self-driven in learning and improving himself/herself;

able to think and try to solve a problem when encountering one; 

patient in performing a task and does not give up easily.


All these positive traits are not acquired from textbooks but rather from an environment conducive to cultivating such attitude. 


This is the ultimate goal of HOTS Maths: Thinking Training Programme―to sow the seeds of these commendable qualities so that they will grow and bear fruit in a child’s life.

5 major benefits for children to participate in this training class for a long time :


  • Get ridof the bad habit of “ waiting for the answer ” and establish a good habit of activelyfindinganswers.

  • Facing difficult things, prefer to stick to more and try more

  • Start meeting. If yousay " possible " to " impossible " , you will use yourmindto think of it .

  • Don't fear the problem, have more direction and method to deal with the problem.

  • More love to explore new things and make new attempts.

Why we do it?

The exponential growth of technology accelerates change. Today, many tasks and jobs performed by humans have been taken over by machines, robots, artificial intelligence, computer programmes, etc. In other words, our children will face stiff competition not in brute power but brainpower.

HOTs Maths is developed by internationally renowned maths educationist Teoh Poh Yew. In line with the government’s Kurikulum Standard Sekolah Rendah (KSSR) syllabus that promotes Kemahiran Berfikir Aras Tinggi (KBAT) or High Order Thinking Skills (HOTs), Teoh employed her 30 years of hands-on teaching experience to develop her own ‘Magic Maths’ to help young minds nurture their High Order Thinking Skills gradually.

To date, she has been invited to 16 countries to share her teaching philosophy and methods in various public forums and education seminars. She believe that High Order Thinking, once developed, can be applied to the learning of other subjects, and most importantly, in the daily life of our children.

HOTs Maths: NOT A Maths Tuition Class

Maths is not just about calculation


Maths, in conventional pedagogy, over emphasizes the speed of calculation and techniques to solve mathematical problems. Such approach has thus undermined the fun and core spirit of mathematics, i.e.: 


Identifying order and relation 

Raising question and finding solution

Learning to think and infer logically

Maths is not just a subject about ‘right or wrong’, but rather a systematic training of the mind to think and analyze a question. It can be applied in everyday life when one faces a problem―to analyze and organize the relational factors and look at the problem from different angles and perspectives.


We believe that if children undergo such training, the thinking and analytical skills they acquire from learning mathematics will become a key success factor in their working life during adulthood.

Implementation steps

Observation ability & concentration

At least 15 minutes of focus on the same thing

Analysis and understanding

Ability to analyze the causality and order of things (logical reasoning ability)

Always think:


  • "why is it like this?"

  • "What is the relationship between it and it?"

  • "If this is the case, what will it be before/after?"

  • "If this is the case, what will it be before/after?"

  • "If I want it, how about now?"

Creative ability (creative creative thinking)

Always think :


  • "What can I do besides this?"

  • "Only this is the case? Can there be other practices?"

  • “How can I make it a bit more special/better?”

  • “How can I make it a bit more special/better?”

I often study and make new things myself.

Evaluation, judgment

Can propose:


  • "I think in addition to this, it can be like this..."

  • "I think this is not good / not suitable, it will be better / more suitable....."

  • "I don't think it is like this..."

Make good use of problem-solving strategies


  • Conjecture and test

  • Looking for law

  • Simplify the problem

  • Do system / data sheet

  • Exclusion

  • Experiment with physical objects

  • Push forward

  • Draw a chart

  • Logical thinking

  • Link new questions to familiar ones

Self-discipline and discipline

Understand the order in the class

Have a time concept – can complete the specified matter (responsible) within the time required by the teacher

Positive energy

Remember the name of others, affectionately call others

Know how to be grateful: I will always give thanks, appreciate and appreciate others.

Interpersonal cooperation

While taking care of yourself, they will also help the students who need them.

Know how to deal with conflicts in interpersonal interaction ("I want him not; he does not want me", know how to achieve good cooperation through expression, communication)

Willing to accept suggestions, opinions, corrections from others

Ability to express

Be able to answer other people's questions clearly:


  • "what are you thinking?"

  • "how did you do it?"

  • "Do you have any idea?"

Being able to teach yourself can also teach others.

Attitude and emotion Management

If you encounter a difficult topic/task, you are willing to spend some time thinking and thinking about it.

I won't get used to saying: "It's hard," "I don't know," "I don't know," "I don't understand.", "I don't think about it."

Will be angry but not temper, just say what you want

In the game (competition, competition), you can maintain harmony (good attitude and emotions face the outcome of winning or losing)

Independent learning

I won't get used to saying: "I don't want", "teacher, you help me"

Know how to take the initiative to ask the teacher to help guide (not directly ask the answer)

Strong desire for knowledge - for most of the learning content, often ask questions, want to know more

Exploring passion - for a topic, go find more information and learn more

Self-care ability

Know how to protect and take care of yourself

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