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MAT 212 Problem-Solving (Jss & Sss)

NCE2 levelSciences11 topics

MAT 212 covers 11 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Textbooks on these levels should be provided at least two students to a copy of each)
  2. Definitions of problem, problem solving
  3. Basic elements of a mathematics problem
  4. Common errors in Mathematics
  5. Discovery and expository approaches to problem solving techniques
  6. Functions of questions in the Mathematics class
  7. Characteristics of a good problem solver
  8. Polya’s problem solving heuristics and application to solving topics in J.S.S. and
  9. S.S.S. Mathematics
  10. Problem solving of selected difficult topics in Mathematics and further
  11. Mathematics e.g. solid figures, great cycles, application of the cosine rule to triangles

A sample from this course

One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.

Textbooks on these levels should be provided at least two students to a copy of each)

This topic is about textbook provision at JSS and SSS levels, specifically the minimum standard that at least two students should share one copy of each textbook. For examination purposes, you should master the meaning of the ratio, how to interpret it in practical school situations, and how to calculate the number of books needed from a given student population.

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