SYMBOLIC PACKAGE TO ENHANCE HOTS

Salam to all,

Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) are enhanced by using a symbolic package, inshaAllah. The learning model used in developing this symbolic package is the Bloom's Taxonomy (refer above👆). The objective of this symbolic package is to assist the users in enhancing HOTS by using the  Problem Based

Learning (PBL) method and Computer Algebra System (CAS) technology. The users for this symbolic package are Form Four Secondary School pupils.

The design of the development of this package is based upon the CAS pedagogic concepts, i.e., interactivity, visualization, experimentation, step by step technique, multiple representations and white box/black box principle.

This on going research is currently done by Khairina Atika Mohamad Zawawi (potential phd student) with the title : "Pakej Simbolik Pendidikan Sains Berasaskan Teknologi Sistem Algebra Komputer (SAK) dan Kaedah Pembelajaran Berasaskan Masalah (PBM) Dalam Meningkatkan Kemahiran Berfikir Aras Tinggi (KBAT)".

The importance of HOTS in the education system can be found in the link below👇.

Also for more information on Bloom's Taxonomy...refer to the link below👇:

https://youtu.be/TcihEl2FPEQ

This project is a collaboration between Computer Algebra Team (CAT), FTSM, UKM and Dr Hazlina Awang Lah, Institut Pendidikan Guru Kampus Sultan Mizan, Besut, Terengganu.

http://drhaz.net/kbat2020/

👆The website developed by Dr Hazlina for the teachers in Terengganu. The focus of this website is on the assessment of HOTS.

Yuzita

AUTOMATED ASSISTANT FOR INDUSTRY USING CAS TECHNOLOGY

Salam to all,

My research project : “Developing an automated assistant for computing integrals over polynomially defined regions and their boundaries using Computer Algebra System (CAS) (01-01-02-SF0791: RM107, 300)” was approved by MOSTI in 2012...but the problem was no postgraduate students seemed to be interested to work on this project...I wonder why🤔???...

I waited* for two years before MOSTI eventually decided to terminate this project. The MOSTI officers came to UKM to discuss with me the progress of this project...so I told them the truth : "No postgraduate students are interested to work on this project (i.e., to accept this challenge)". What to do🤔???...😊.

Now (eight years later😄)...I would like to present again the synopsis of this project...in case there are some postgraduate students out there who are interested in this area of Computer Algebra (CA) in Industry...please do contact me🙂.

If there is someone who really interested to work on this project then I will, inshaAllah apply a grant to support this research coz...I don't want to get myself into trouble again...for the second time😂.

Synopsis of this project :

In some industries, we want to know some of the intermediate results (not just the end results) without user intervention during the solving process. In other words, when a problem occurs in the solving process, this tool has the potential to detect where the problem arises and the user can recommend necessary steps on how to solve it.The Cylindrical Algebraic Decomposition (CAD) algorithms published in the Journal of Mathematics and Computers in Simulation 82 (2011) 79-101,(IMACS): J. Wester, Y. Yaacob & S. Steinberg, would not be able to do this. Therefore, significant changes need to be made to the existing CAD algorithms.

* While waiting for the potential postgraduate students...I did some "promotions" on the area of Computer Algebra (using the Science Fund (SF) fund) like translating my phd thesis into the Melayu language, setting up a Computer Algebra Research Lab (tapi mampu bertahan sekejap saja...atas sebab2 tertentu 😂) & Computer Algebra Team (CAT), producing a phd graduate (Computer Algebra (CA) in Education): Dr Hazlina Awang Lah, etc.

Yuzita

SAYA ANAK MALAYSIA

Salam to all,

1989...I was not feeling well lately and so I decided to go to the university clinic for a medical check up...maybe becoz I was in a great tension with so many exams around the corner and also writing my research paper...?🤔. At that time I was doing a master degree in Mathematics (with minor in Computer Science) at the Sam Houston State University (SHSU), Texas, USA. The result of the medical check up : I am pregnant !!! 🙂. At first I was worried...in case I couldn't handle my pregnancy with my study but I knew Allah will not test you with something that is beyond your capability (Surah al Baqarah: 286)...with that reminder from Allah...I felt calm...alhamdulillah🙂.

Dr. Atkins, my gynaecologist, advised me not to go back to Malaysia when I am in my seventh month pregnancy because it might be detrimental to me and the baby. I told him it all depending on my viva which was scheduled on the seventh month of my pregnancy and if I get thru it...I want to go back home straight away to Malaysia...or else if I don't get thru it...I need to rescedule my viva to only Allah knows when...perhaps next semester and if so...the baby will be born in the US😯!!! I don't want that to happen...coz I want my baby to be born in Malaysia (inshaAllah)...so that he/she can declare that "Malaysia tanah tumpah darah ku" or "Saya Anak Malaysia" 😀. By the way...in islam it is not wrong to have this feeling of great love for your country becoz if you don't...who else will 🤔???

My viva didnt go well on the first day...I didn't seem to be able to answer most of the questions asked by the examiners...i wonder why 🤔??? So the examiners wanted to continue the viva on the following day. The next day Prof Stoltenberg (head of the examiners) admitted they made a mistake of focusing on the area that was not supposed to be my research area. They apologized to me. So we did reviva and this time...alhamdulillah...I passed😊.

Now...I was already in my seventh month pregnancy but I still wanted to go back to Malaysia as soon as possible...and I did...safe & sound. Alhamdulillah😄.

Our baby was born about two months later. 

We named her Wan 'Ainul Yaqeen...😘❤️❤️❤️

👆Yaqeen was quarantined in a hotel near Hospital Putrajaya (with 31other Medical Officers (MOs)) becoz of a patient they treated was found Covid +. 

Alhamdulillah...only 1 MO was found Covid + and already recovered🙂.

Top picture :

Wan 'Adneen Na'im (my second daughter) at my grandmother's house in Hulu Langat, Selangor.

 *** I remember telling my husband : "Kalau xlulus juga viva kali kedua ni...I akan terus juga buat sampai lulus...dan kalau xlulus juga...alamatnya kita dok US je la..." 😂😄😅(sbb I dah janji dgn bapak I akan habiskn master I (inshaAllah) masa nk minta permission bapak utk berkahwin).

*** Tlg doakn Yaqeen & rakan2 dan frontliners yg lain sentiasa dlm perlindungan dan rahmat Allah.

Ameen...🙂🤲

👆Yaqeen grad doktor...eh! eh! silap...grad tadika 😂😅.

Yuzita

MALAYSIA KU SAYANG

Salam to all,

2006...I arrived at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) after spending about three months at the University of New Mexico (UNM) Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. Prof Steinberg invited me there to finalize the writing up of my phd thesis. He wrote an email to me : "It is crucial for you now to start writing (my phd thesis) and stop working (on my research project)"...after I emailed to him my latest work...which I was not sure whether it was good enough for a phd value🤔😀...

At first when I arrived at the UNM I had some difficulties in concentrating on my writing as it was the month of Ramadhan...becoz I was missing my family and the Malaysian environment during Ramadhan. But alhamdulillah...everything went well🙂. Prof Steinberg and Dr Wester accepted my work after I presented it to them (some sort like a "mini viva" 😂). Prof Steinberg said : "You have now convinced me you know something that I don't know...". Alhamdulilah...🙂

Now I couldnt wait to go back home (after I finished up my writing and got it approved by Prof Steinberg and Dr Wester)...not only becoz I miss my family but I was also missing the Malaysian environment very much 😔. I made doa to Allah to get me safely back home to Malaysia, my beloved country. Even though the UNM has a very good and caring Muslims community and they were very supportive towards me...like providing me with halal food, invited me to the Islamic Centre of New Mexico  (ICNM) to break the fast together...but it is still not the same as the Malaysian environment...and I miss it very much😔.

When I arrived at the KLIA arrival terminal (my family was there waiting for me), I was very much excited that I kept on jumping...up & down, up & down, and so on😂...until Yaqeen (my daughter) said : "Apa kena dengan mama ni...malu la mama sume org pandang kita". But I just didn't care at all about what people think of me coz...I am now safely back home in Malaysia...MALAYSIA KU SAYANG 😂❤️.

Alhamdulillah...😀 

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

SELAMAT HARI KEBANGSAAN !!! 😂

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Yuzita

PAKEJ SIMBOLIK PENDIDIKAN

Salam to all,

Sistem Algebra Komputer (SAK) merupakan sebuah perisian komputer yang digunakan untuk penyelesaian matematik daripada masalah yang mudah hinggalah kepada yang kompleks. Ia juga berupaya untuk memvisualisasi sesuatu entiti dengan lebih jelas, memproses ungkapan formula dengan lebih cepat dan tepat, membantu Kemahiran Berfikir Aras Tinggi (KBAT) dengan menyediakan pelbagai perwakilan simbolik, numerik, grafik, dsb. 

Contoh SAK ialah Axiom, Maple dan Mathematica.

Penggunaan SAK dalam industri pendidikan merupakan suatu pendekatan yang amat berkesan dan menyeronokkan. SAK juga digunakan dalam pelbagai industri seperti industri kimia, industri robotik, industri automotif dan banyak lagi.

Sebagai contoh : 

2005...saya menghadiri kursus "Programming in Mathematica" di University of Melbourne, Australia. Pada mulanya saya ingatkan yang menghadiri kursus tersebut adalah terdiri daripada pensyarah2 universiti seperti saya...rupa2nya saya seorang sahaja pensyarah universiti😀...dan yang lainnya adalah daripada pelbagai industri.

Ini menunjukkan kepentingan SAK untuk mempertingkatkan mutu sesuatu pekerjaan dalam pelbagai industri seperti menjimatkan masa pengeluaran ("time is money") dan menghasilkan sesuatu produk yang lebih tepat.

Projek yang saya utarakan di sini adalah bertujuan untuk membina suatu pakej simbolik pendidikan menggunakan SAK yang merangkumi dua aspek utama : 

(1) Reka bentuk pembangunan pakej berasaskan konsep pedagogi SAK iaitu : (a) interaktiviti (b) visualisasi (c) eksperimentasi (d) teknik langkah demi langkah (e) kepelbagaian perwakilan dan (f) prinsip kotak putih / kotak hitam.

(2) Menguji kebolehgunaan pakej berasaskan tiga atribut iaitu : (a) keberkesanan (b) kebolehbelajaran (c) kepuasan. 

Setiap atribut diterapkan konsep pedagogi SAK.

Kaedah analisis data :

(a) Ujian korelasi Pearson untuk menguji hipotesis kajian

(b) Ujian-t untuk melihat perbezaan skor ujian setelah menggunakan pakej.

(c)  Analisis regresi berganda untuk melihat kesan ketiga-tiga atribut terhadap skor ujian setelah menggunakan pakej.

Analisis data dilaksana dengan menggunakan perisian SPSS untuk menghasilkan dapatan kajian.

Nota :

Projek seperti dinyatakan di atas telah berjaya dilaksanakan oleh Hazlina Awang Lah pada 2014 dengan tajuk "Pakej Simbolik Pendidikan Fizik (i-phys) Berasaskan Sistem Algebra Komputer" (Tesis Doktor Falsafah, UKM).

Alhamdulillah🙂🤲.

Tahniah Dr Hazlina !!! 🙂❤️

* Sesiapa yang berminat untuk meneruskan pengajian dalam "postgrad studies (Master / phd)" dalam bidang  Komputer Algebra bolehlah menghubungi saya🙂.

Bidang yang ditawarkan : "Computer Algebra in Education or Computer Algebra in Industry (choose your own targeted industry)" 🙂.

⭐Nota penting :

Kalau nak cuba main2 dgn Mathematica...boleh muat turun trial installation dari :

https://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/trial/

The trial license is good for 15 days.

Yuzita

MY BELOVED FAMILY ❤️

 Salam to all,

From your left (sitting down) :

- Wan 'Ainul Yaqeen...my eldest daughter

- Wan Zamdan...my husband

- myself

- Wan 'Umar Firdaus...my son

From your right (standing up) :

- Wan 'Adneen Na'im...my second daughter

- Mohamad Ariff...Na'im's husband

This picture was taken during Hari Raya Aidil Fitri 2020 at the Sri Ixora apartment, kajang.

Mama loves you all very much 😘.

InshaAllah...we will be together in the jannah with our beloved prophet Muhammad (saw) and his companons (ra) ❤️🙂. Ameen 🤲...

From your left : Na'im, Yaqeen, 'Umar and  Ninie

Yuzita

IXORA

Salam to all, 

I am now living at the Sri Ixora apartment, Kajang, Selangor. The apartment is only about 15 minutes away from UKM. I bought it in 2008. The selling agent kept on persuading me without failure to buy a unit of this Sri Ixora apartment...☺ so to challenge her i said : "if you can find me a unit on the highest floor and at the very end with two parking spaces (side by side) on the ground floor and also with nothing to obstruct the view...inshaAllah I will buy it ". 

A few days later she came to see me at UKM to tell me the "good" news that she found the unit that met my requirements. The potential buyer's application bank loan for the prescribed unit was rejected...and so I had no choice but to buy it (a promise is a promise😀). 

But why do I need to buy it ? I already own a house in Kuala Lumpur...🤔

2009...I came back to Malaysia from Montreal, Canada after presenting a paper at the conference  on  the Applications of Computer Algebra (ACA) 2009 there. I felt sick for a few days after returning from Montreal. I thought maybe becoz of the long trip to Montreal 🤔? I went to HUKM for a medical check up and I was referred to a neuro surgeon, Mr. Toh who later diagnosed me with a brain tumor (as big as an egg (grade A)). Innalillahi wainna ilaihi rajiun...

2010...I was involved with a terrible car accident (alhamdulillah🤲...I was alone in the car). I was in a coma state for six days. My spleen was badly injured and Mr Zamzuri (HKL specialist) had no choice but to remove it and...also half of my intestine was removed. 

After the accident I moved to Sri Ixora apartment becoz it was nearer to UKM and easier for me to go to work. I needed to get myself occupied with other stuff than kept thinking of my illness. A place where I needed time to think and munajat to Allah...asking for His guidance...that was what I found in my Ixora apt...❤️ 

2018...I had an operation at HUKM to remove my brain tumor and alhamdulillah...it was successful.

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Mr Toh & team for a very well done job. I spent fourteen hours in the operating theatre (OT): 8am - 10pm...so you can lmagine how tired Mr Toh & team must have been to remove the tumor 🤔... Thank you very much...from the bottom of my heart. I really appreciate it ❤️

Now...I am still in the "recovery" period but alhamdulillah...I can do most of the job that I used to do 🙂.

Yuzita

*** Picture above :

Ixora flower...MashaAllah !!! So beautiful...😯❤️