This is a guest post by Pooja Srivastava
Radhika is a class topper. Once, when we were invited to her
home, Radhika was doing her Science homework assignment on soluble and
insoluble materials as explained by her teacher. She had collected different
types of materials like flour, a piece of wood, small pebbles, some sand,
talcum powder, sawdust, salt, sugar and corn starch, some glasses and water.
She was asked to distinguish soluble from insoluble.
She put the different materials into a glass of water and
tried to mix the contents with a spoon. Radhika’s mother was sitting nearby
observing her as she proceeded with her work. Radhika would glance at her
mother after she had tried to mix a particular material in the glass of water
asking her mother for feedback, whether the substance was soluble or insoluble.
We noticed this and asked Radhika to wait for sometime after
stirring the contents in the glass to check whether the substance had dissolved
completely, dissolved partially or was totally insoluble in water.
Radhika continued to look very unsure and was unable to make
up her mind about the end result without her mother’s help, despite having the
evidence right in front of her.
However, rest assured, Radhika will continue to be a class
topper.
Pooja Srivastava is a Special Education
& School Teaching Expert based in India.
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