Yeo, Joseph B. W.

Engaged learning is an integral part of the ‘Teach Less, Learn More’ initiative. This paper will describe various strategies to engage secondary schools students in their learning of mathematics. It will provide concrete examples of how to use worksheets to guide students to discover certain mathematical concepts, and how to use real-life investigative tasks to engage the minds of the students and to develop in them an inquiry attitude towards mathematics. All these strategies were taught in an inservice course for secondary school teachers and the paper will present their views and attitudes towards engaged learning for their students.

For decades, students have been experiencing problems in understanding mathematical concepts. The use of technology has helped to overcome some of these problems. This paper attempts to share some of the technologies used by secondary school teachers in Singapore to facilitate students’ learning, e.g. the use of dynamic geometry software such as the Geometer’s Sketchpad (GSP) to help students visualize, experiment and construct new knowledge about geometric properties, and the use of Excel to reduce the tediousness of constructing graphs and enhance students’ understanding of functions and graphs.