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Why suggest several versions of primary books?Read the answer and worked solution →Whom should Board exams ensure can pass?Read the answer and worked solution →What should replace the unique test pattern in mathematics assessment?Read the answer and worked solution →Which training do maths teachers need?Read the answer and worked solution →Teachers most need which central support?Read the answer and worked solution →What should each district have for talent?Read the answer and worked solution →The primary stage mathematics curriculum should include more than just what?Read the answer and worked solution →Simple patterns of repeating shapes lay the base for what mode of thinking?Read the answer and worked solution →What to do with a child's own number ideas?Read the answer and worked solution →Why use small numbers with young children?Read the answer and worked solution →Why do pupils ask 'add or subtract?'Read the answer and worked solution →How should number operations be introduced?Read the answer and worked solution →The fear of mathematics often begins when children meet operations on what?Read the answer and worked solution →Why did everyday fraction use fade away?Read the answer and worked solution →Algebraic notation at the upper primary stage is best seen as what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which activity introduces geometry informally?Read the answer and worked solution →Which items show compact organisation of data?Read the answer and worked solution →Which 1937 committee elaborated Gandhiji's idea of basic education, including mathematics?Read the answer and worked solution →NPE 1986 saw mathematics as training for what?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Why suggest several versions of primary books?

  1. To drop all pictures in books
  2. To make the books costlier
  3. To match children's language
  4. To make every class smaller
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Correct answer: C. To match children's language

1. The paper says the language in textbooks must be sensitive to the language uses of all children. 2. This may be achievable only by a multiplicity of textbooks. 3. Cost, pictures or class size are not the reasons. _Source: NCERT National Focus Group Position Paper on Teaching of Mathematics, 5.2 Mathematics for All_

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Whom should Board exams ensure can pass?

  1. Only tuition students
  2. Only the top ten percent
  3. Only urban students
  4. All numerate citizens
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Correct answer: D. All numerate citizens

1. The paper suggests restructuring Board examinations so that all numerate citizens pass and become eligible for a State certificate. 2. Nearly half the examination may be geared towards this. 3. The rest should challenge students with competence rather than memory. _Source: NCERT National Focus Group Position Paper on Teaching of Mathematics, 5.2.1 Assessment_

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What should replace the unique test pattern in mathematics assessment?

  1. Only oral recall tests
  2. One longer written test
  3. Multiple modes of assessment
  4. Only timed speed drills
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Correct answer: C. Multiple modes of assessment

1. The paper says multiple modes of assessment, rather than the unique test pattern, need to be encouraged. 2. That calls for research and a variety of assessment models widely shared. 3. A longer test, oral recall or speed drills still keep one pattern. _Source: NCERT National Focus Group Position Paper on Teaching of Mathematics, 5.2.1 Assessment_

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