EMA1501 Assignment 4
2024 - DUE 20 August
2024
QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE ANSWERS
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, 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) •
2024 - DUE 20 August
2024
QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE ANSWERS
[DATE]
[COMPANY NAME]
[Company address]
, 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) •
