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EMA1501
Assignment 4
2024 - DUE 20
August 2024
QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED ANSWERS
, EMA1501 Assignment 4 2024 - DUE 20 August 2024
Question 1
The diagram below is the data handling cycle, and it is used in emergent mathematics
as a tool to collect, organise, represent, and interpret numerical information or data.
1. In the Foundation Phase, learners are taught to work with all four elements of the
data handling process, however, in the Grade R classroom, learners are taught how to
work with data, starting with collecting, sorting and then representing the data. In two to
three sentences, explain why Grade R learners only stop at representing the data. (2)
2. In your own words, compare and contrast the sequence in which Grade R learners
master data handling skills to the sequence in which Grades 1 to 3 master data
handling. Write it in two paragraphs of about 5 to 6 lines or about 100 words each.
(5x2=10) 6
3. Read the case study below, and then follow the instructions provided at the bottom:
In Miss Mofokeng’s classroom, it’s circle time in the morning; the discussion is based on
the theme of the week; “feelings”. Miss Mofokeng asks each child to pick out a face
from the container full of cardboard cutout emojis that show how they feel that morning.
The emojis show the following expressions: sad, happy, tired, excited, and worried.
Miss Mofokeng now has twenty cutouts in the middle of the circle.
3.1. Suppose you are Miss Mofokeng; plan and involve learners in a data handling
activity based on the case study above. In your activity, include • the problem
statement/question (2) •
present the activity using the steps of the data handling cycle. This should also include
at least three questions in each step, as well as illustrations to guide the children in the
process. (4x7=28)
3.2. After completing the activity in 3.1, answer the following questions:
EMA1501
Assignment 4
2024 - DUE 20
August 2024
QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED ANSWERS
, EMA1501 Assignment 4 2024 - DUE 20 August 2024
Question 1
The diagram below is the data handling cycle, and it is used in emergent mathematics
as a tool to collect, organise, represent, and interpret numerical information or data.
1. In the Foundation Phase, learners are taught to work with all four elements of the
data handling process, however, in the Grade R classroom, learners are taught how to
work with data, starting with collecting, sorting and then representing the data. In two to
three sentences, explain why Grade R learners only stop at representing the data. (2)
2. In your own words, compare and contrast the sequence in which Grade R learners
master data handling skills to the sequence in which Grades 1 to 3 master data
handling. Write it in two paragraphs of about 5 to 6 lines or about 100 words each.
(5x2=10) 6
3. Read the case study below, and then follow the instructions provided at the bottom:
In Miss Mofokeng’s classroom, it’s circle time in the morning; the discussion is based on
the theme of the week; “feelings”. Miss Mofokeng asks each child to pick out a face
from the container full of cardboard cutout emojis that show how they feel that morning.
The emojis show the following expressions: sad, happy, tired, excited, and worried.
Miss Mofokeng now has twenty cutouts in the middle of the circle.
3.1. Suppose you are Miss Mofokeng; plan and involve learners in a data handling
activity based on the case study above. In your activity, include • the problem
statement/question (2) •
present the activity using the steps of the data handling cycle. This should also include
at least three questions in each step, as well as illustrations to guide the children in the
process. (4x7=28)
3.2. After completing the activity in 3.1, answer the following questions:
