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Transforming ‘Chalk and Talk’ Teaching and Learning for an Undergraduate Mathematics Course during COVID-19 Outbreak

‘Chalk and talk’ is commonly used as one of the methods to teach mathematics courses due to its simple strategy of demonstrating and solving mathematics problem on the whiteboard in front of the whole class. In UNIMAS, the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology lecturers have been us...

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Main Authors:	Sarah Flora, Samson Juan, Hamimah, Ujir, Tiong, Wei King, Nuha Loling, Othman, Shapiee, Abd Rahman, Phang, Piau
Other Authors:	Wan Ad Aziz, Wan Daud
Format:	Book Chapter
Language:	English
Published:	UMK Press 2021
Subjects:	LB2300 Higher Education QA Mathematics
Online Access:	http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/37110/1/Chapter08_Telic2020.pdf http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/37110/
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spelling	my.unimas.ir.371102022-02-25T08:24:07Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/37110/ Transforming ‘Chalk and Talk’ Teaching and Learning for an Undergraduate Mathematics Course during COVID-19 Outbreak Sarah Flora, Samson Juan Hamimah, Ujir Tiong, Wei King Nuha Loling, Othman Shapiee, Abd Rahman Phang, Piau LB2300 Higher Education QA Mathematics ‘Chalk and talk’ is commonly used as one of the methods to teach mathematics courses due to its simple strategy of demonstrating and solving mathematics problem on the whiteboard in front of the whole class. In UNIMAS, the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology lecturers have been using this method as a medium to teach first year undergraduate students undertaking TMF1874 Mathematics for Computing. However, when the COVID-19 pandemic situation escalated in March 2020, the method had to be changed to fit student’s needs for online learning. University students were sent back home after Malaysian government announced the movement control order (MCO) in a bid to fight the virus (Hassan, 2020). At that time, there were 300 undergraduate students taking the course and they had already gone through half of the syllabus through physical lecture and tutorial sessions. The common strategy was disrupted, and an ad-hoc plan was required to have a fully online teaching and learning for the remaining weeks of the semester. There were three challenges that need to be considered: How to ensure that all students can access the materials online? How to create online assessments for many students? What are the ways to communicate with the students to check on their progress? UMK Press Wan Ad Aziz, Wan Daud Mohamad Najmi, Masri Ahmad Zaki, Amiruddin 2021 Book Chapter PeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/37110/1/Chapter08_Telic2020.pdf Sarah Flora, Samson Juan and Hamimah, Ujir and Tiong, Wei King and Nuha Loling, Othman and Shapiee, Abd Rahman and Phang, Piau (2021) Transforming ‘Chalk and Talk’ Teaching and Learning for an Undergraduate Mathematics Course during COVID-19 Outbreak. In: 1st Online Teaching Enhancement and Learning Innovation Carnival (eTeLIC) Book Series: Embracing New Norms with Asynchronous Online Learning. UMK Press, Kelantan, pp. 51-60. ISBN 978-967-2912-76-7
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spellingShingle	LB2300 Higher Education QA Mathematics Sarah Flora, Samson Juan Hamimah, Ujir Tiong, Wei King Nuha Loling, Othman Shapiee, Abd Rahman Phang, Piau Transforming ‘Chalk and Talk’ Teaching and Learning for an Undergraduate Mathematics Course during COVID-19 Outbreak
description	‘Chalk and talk’ is commonly used as one of the methods to teach mathematics courses due to its simple strategy of demonstrating and solving mathematics problem on the whiteboard in front of the whole class. In UNIMAS, the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology lecturers have been using this method as a medium to teach first year undergraduate students undertaking TMF1874 Mathematics for Computing. However, when the COVID-19 pandemic situation escalated in March 2020, the method had to be changed to fit student’s needs for online learning. University students were sent back home after Malaysian government announced the movement control order (MCO) in a bid to fight the virus (Hassan, 2020). At that time, there were 300 undergraduate students taking the course and they had already gone through half of the syllabus through physical lecture and tutorial sessions. The common strategy was disrupted, and an ad-hoc plan was required to have a fully online teaching and learning for the remaining weeks of the semester. There were three challenges that need to be considered: How to ensure that all students can access the materials online? How to create online assessments for many students? What are the ways to communicate with the students to check on their progress?
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title	Transforming ‘Chalk and Talk’ Teaching and Learning for an Undergraduate Mathematics Course during COVID-19 Outbreak
title_short	Transforming ‘Chalk and Talk’ Teaching and Learning for an Undergraduate Mathematics Course during COVID-19 Outbreak
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Transforming ‘Chalk and Talk’ Teaching and Learning for an Undergraduate Mathematics Course during COVID-19 Outbreak

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