I've got some problems with this O.P., problems with the day that I should do this (it's been posponed a few times) and problems with the recording. I thought that my mobile phone would record more than 5 minutes, because at the other O.P. I used the same mobile phone to record me. It could be because the battery, it was low at the morning... either way I could record just one minute. Unfortunately I think that I haven't done well this presentation, like the others, I've been so nervous and in some moments I didn't know what to say. My power-point doesn't have sufficient slides and some friends said me that I didn't move enough. In the other hand, I knowed what to say about the theme (our research project), but it was recorded after the official presentation with the court... and it was horrible. Really horrible. And my appalling final mark confirms it.
Here's the transcription:
" Amm... Well, I have done my research project about a pedagogical method called Kumon Method.
My objectives were to know more about this method, to know more about other pedagogical methods and also to comprove their efficiency.
The Kumon Method is based on maths and it's a progression since the firsts learnings of maths (like to count, sums, substractions) to a more complexes operations (like determinants, angles...). It's divided in 23 levels, and each level has got like 200 books of exercises and each book has got like 20 or 30 pages full of operations. "
Here's the transcription:
" Amm... Well, I have done my research project about a pedagogical method called Kumon Method.
My objectives were to know more about this method, to know more about other pedagogical methods and also to comprove their efficiency.
The Kumon Method is based on maths and it's a progression since the firsts learnings of maths (like to count, sums, substractions) to a more complexes operations (like determinants, angles...). It's divided in 23 levels, and each level has got like 200 books of exercises and each book has got like 20 or 30 pages full of operations. "
Here is when the battery ended, so I'll write what I had in my script:
"This makes that when the student advances to the next level, he won’t feel any difficulty. It’s called the “painless learning”.
As you see, it’s not a great innovation at the education world, because the student just have to repeat and repeat the same exercises that he’s already done yesterday, and the day before.
One of the disadvantages of the method is his continuity. Every day (even weekends and summer) the student has to be like 30 minutes doing his exercises. It uses to satiate the student, so there are a lot of them that retires from him.
Nonetheless it gives great benefits to the capacity of concentration of the student, and because of that, the student will be able to learn more things in less time.
Also, this method let the student to learn about secondary or batxiller maths while he’s just in primary. At the interview to the kumon’s teacher on Figueres I saw that one student from 4th of primary are doing equals from 2nd of institute.
He did them quickly, without thinking of what he’s doing.
I get a few more information from this “school”, because there are a bit of secrecy in this organization.
It’s all, questions?"
