P5 Science & Maths a big change

[Champion]

Another good Chinese newspaper suitable for upper primary is the 大拇指

http://youth.zaobao.com.sg/friday/pages/tupintro.html

It has a lot of interesting articles that can catch the students' attention as well as practice papers for them to try on.

[janet88]

p4 to p5 is a BIG jump…all the subject difficulty levels drop to 1.8m from 0.9m…this kind of drop is very drastic and stressful.

[lurline]

They will pick up by the end of the year, I hope.


I think the drop won’t be so drastic if they are consistent in their revision and work.

[peapot]

Wow, I read from page until here it really sound pretty stressful.


What topics in P5 math is consider the toughest? I want to be mentally prepared.
My gal is weak in math.

[smartmummy]

peapot:

Wow, I read from page until here it really sound pretty stressful.


What topics in P5 math is consider the toughest? I want to be mentally prepared.
My gal is weak in math.

If fraction is strong then can manage ratio,percentage all similar concept as fraction.Generally the P5 maths is difficult to compare with P4.My son can do the qns with direct concept testing,but he and me struggled with some qns to figure out in top school papers.In P5, there are 18 problem sum qns.the last 6 qns (4,5 marks) are very difficult.

[peapot]

Wow, smartmummy does that mean I better focus on fraction and make sure she is good in it? 怕怕

[smartmummy]

peapot:

Wow, smartmummy does that mean I better focus on fraction and make sure she is good in it? 怕怕

Yes. btw 怕怕 means what? I don't know chinese.

[MMM]

mom72:

For his Math, he told me that the highest score in class is 75 and out of 34 students, 14 failed. I am shocked. I'm not sure I'm being too panicky but I'm arranging for a Math tutor to help him out from June onwards hoping to see some improvement in his CA2.

Hi mom72,

Yes this is very common for P4 to P5. I recalled my dd (P6 this year). Her P5 CA1 maths was 70 odd range while she managed to do around 80-90 in P4. There are failure in top classes and for average ability class, there are only a handful who passed. We need to let them regain confidence and I saw my dd eventually move back to 80's level by the next exam. But during P6 CA1 this year, her scores dropped again to high 60's.... wasn't expecting a jump as was told the move from P5 to P6 is gradual. Well.... probably happened due to complacency. For SA1 which she just sat for few days ago, she is very excited to know her results as through lots of practices after disappointing CA1 results, she felt confident about the paper she sat for though alot of classmates mentioned it's tough.

I've a P5. School scrapped CAs this year so I couldn't gauge his P5 performance. So this SA1 is alittle scary for me. Few months back, we started to prepare him for maths paper. He struggled and couldn't finish on time. So I gave him lots top schools paper 1 to do and subsequently paper2. We also taught him techniques like if he can't solve a problem, move on. Don't because of 3 marks, you lose the rest of 97. With practices, we see that he gained speed, attention to details and also familarity with the common questions. He told us that he completed his maths papers with sufficient time to check and engage the techniques for questions he has problem solving. Will know if it is really effective until we see his results.

My dd's scores dropped across the board for all subjects. Her CL enrichment teacher told me that we need to start to move her back to her previous level so that she don't lose confidence. She said the longer the child stay in the \"drop\" level, it will be harder for them to walk out of it. Another watch out that I learnt from other parents on maths was. Discourage over reliance on calculator. If kids rely on calculator in P5, their paper 1 will suffer (tendancy to have careless mistakes).

[Champion]

MMM:

Hi mom72,

Yes this is very common for P4 to P5. I recalled my dd (P6 this year). Her P5 CA1 maths was 70 odd range while she managed to do around 80-90 in P4. There are failure in top classes and for average ability class, there are only a handful who passed. We need to let them regain confidence and I saw my dd eventually move back to 80's level by the next exam. But during P6 CA1 this year, her scores dropped again to high 60's.... wasn't expecting a jump as was told the move from P5 to P6 is gradual. Well.... probably happened due to complacency. For SA1 which she just sat for few days ago, she is very excited to know her results as through lots of practices after disappointing CA1 results, she felt confident about the paper she sat for though alot of classmates mentioned it's tough.

I've a P5. School scrapped CAs this year so I couldn't gauge his P5 performance. So this SA1 is alittle scary for me. Few months back, we started to prepare him for maths paper. He struggled and couldn't finish on time. So I gave him lots top schools paper 1 to do and subsequently paper2. We also taught him techniques like if he can't solve a problem, move on. Don't because of 3 marks, you lose the rest of 97. With practices, we see that he gained speed, attention to details and also familarity with the common questions. He told us that he completed his maths papers with sufficient time to check and engage the techniques for questions he has problem solving. Will know if it is really effective until we see his results.

My dd's scores dropped across the board for all subjects. Her CL enrichment teacher told me that we need to start to move her back to her previous level so that she don't lose confidence. She said the longer the child stay in the \"drop\" level, it will be harder for them to walk out of it. Another watch out that I learnt from other parents on maths was. Discourage over reliance on calculator. If kids rely on calculator in P5, their paper 1 will suffer (tendancy to have careless mistakes).

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[peapot]

Smartmummy it means scared