Lesson 1: I started teaching the class factorisation of cubic expressions and getting them to understand the difference between 'factorise...' and 'solve...' Some students fail to answer accurately because they do not know what the questionsare looking for.
The synthetic method in dividing polynomials made division so much faster and easier. Most of the students prefer to use this for their division, but a couple are still more comfortable using long division. I don't insist that they use a certain method as long as they can perform the division effectively.
Lesson 2: A short test on cubic expressions was given. Students were also given their marks for their CA and shown how they have done so far. As their submission of daily work is part of the assessment for their CA, some students who were more concerned with their results were determined to submit all their late work to me the next day so that they could do better.
Lesson 3: The class started on Symmetric Properties of the Roots of a Quadratic Equation. This is a fairly new topic - I only did it when I was a student and this topic had been taken out of the syllabus for the past 10 over years and only re-introduced recently. Most were comfortable with the manipulation of algebraic expressions to get the desired answers, but some were still rather weak in their basic expansions of algebraic expressions.
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