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MATHEMATICAL CARTOONING FOR PRIMARY GRADES
DR. LALIT KISHORE
Focus on visual-smart kids
Visual learners are special learners They have an uncanny ability to access and
hold images in their minds. Our job as math teachers is to help them to
creatively use that strength to learn basic arithmetic
Visual learners should be allowed to continue loving to learn.
Enlivening math classroom
Without the use of cartoons by primary school level math teachers, learning of the subject becomes a lost cause for visual learners.
Learning of math becomes enlivened, vibrant, engaging, educational, and joyful by using cartoons in grade one
Importance of a visual
For visual learners, a picture is worth more than a thousand words,
When math is initially represented in pictorial or cartoon formats, it becomes incredibly useful to visual learners.
Pedagogical or math-related cartooning The simple essential skill of drawing
number, symbols and shape cartoons is to be learnt by primary teachers.
The teachers can create a bit of amusement by drawing simple subject related cartoons to create some amusement in the classroom.
Emphasis on simplification
Skills of over simplification and caricature are used to capture the essence of an idea.
Number naming and counting are introduced unconsciously by many teachers with cartoons
For example, think about the first few numbers depicted by the tally system: I, II, III, IIII …
Those are… drawings! Cartoons! Caricatures of an idea!
But the lack liveliness. Small children see everything as if living, that’s why the self-talk with objects.
Cartooning skill…for teachers
The skill of making a drawing of something or someone in a simplified or exaggerated way.
For example showing a face like a circle, square, pear-shaped or triangle with dots as eyes and a pointed line as nose, a long dash of curve as mouth is cartooning through simplification
Exaggerations are avoided in pedagogic cartooning.
Pedagogic cartoon
A pedagogic cartoon is a form of two-dimensional illustrated semi-realistic (representing reality but not real) visual art intended for educating students on a topic through over-simplification of visuals in which caricaturing is generally avoided]
Professional and pedagogic cartoons
Boy and girl as math cartoons
Maths shapes cartoons
Female and male math teachers as cartoons
Number cartoons
Math symbols cartoons
Activities
Drawing and colouring math cartoons for enhancing visual intelligence
Use of math cartoon with dialogue boxes to convey facts and concepts
Using them to for creating humour Using them to create pedagogical comic math
stories strips