TET Exams 2016 : Quiz on Pedagogy of Mathematics

4/16 - 1/8 = 3/8
6/7 - 2/9 = 4/2
The above represents the work of a student. If this error pattern continues, the student's answer to 5/11 - 2/7 will be

A teacher in grade VI provided each child with a centimeter grid paper and a pair of scissors. She wanted them to explore how two-dimensional shapes can be folded into three-dimensional objects. Which of the following concepts are the students exploring?

When doing exponents, the work observed in a learner's notebook was as follows:

4³ x 4² = 4⁵
6⁴ x 6⁴ = 6⁸
7³ x 3⁷ = 21¹⁰

The learner has not understood how to:

Teachers, while discussing problem-solving as an approach to teaching of mathematics, articulated four views. Which of the following views does not justify the real meaning of this approach?

Given linear equations, I, II, and III, a learner is not able to solve III algebraically. The most likely area of difficulty is that the learner has not understood:

When introducing mensuration, a teacher writes all the formulae on the board before proceeding further. This reflects that she is following the:

Ameena is playing with matchsticks and adds one at each stage  Appu, on the other hand, makes a table:

What is your observation about the two children in this situation?

To be good in mathematics, one needs to:

Students make errors while solving mathematical problems because:

With an activity on paper folding, a teacher was trying to depict the relationship of the areas of a parallelogram and a triangle. Which of the following best depicts the transformation of stages?