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CTET · TNTET — Maths Pedagogy

How do kids really
learn maths? 🧮

Not by memorising. There's a 3-step order examiners love to test 👇
Concrete → Pictorial → Abstract
🍎🍎🍎Concrete
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● ● ●Pictorial
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3Abstract
Same idea, three ways — hold it, draw it, then the symbol makes sense.
Bruner's 3 modes
Concrete — count real objects (enactive)
🖼️ Pictorial — draw or picture them (iconic)
⚠️ Jump straight to symbols → maths feels meaningless
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The Concrete–Pictorial–Abstract (CPA) approach comes from:
A · Piaget
B · Jerome Bruner
C · Dienes
D · Van Hiele
✅ B — Bruner's enactive → iconic → symbolic modes
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