P2 Math - General Discussion

[mowmow]

What i did was i always remind him of what his common mistakes n carelessness are, effective or not its child to child, very subjective.[/quote]


I tried to do that with my sons as well, but effectiveness differs from time to time. It works now but may not work later. It is most frustrating when they come home with a almost perfect-score test/exam paper, with a minor careless mistake, while all the challenging sums are being answered perfectly!

[jedamum]

mowmow:

but I am wondering how do we tackle the problem of \"carelessness\"?

hi mowmow,
have you seen http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/content/help-my-kid-makes-careless-mistakes?
one of the very useful articles that i bookmarked for my own references.

[kiasumama]

mowmow:

What i did was i always remind him of what his common mistakes n carelessness are, effective or not its child to child, very subjective.

I tried to do that with my sons as well, but effectiveness differs from time to time. It works now but may not work later. It is most frustrating when they come home with a almost perfect-score test/exam paper, with a minor careless mistake, while all the challenging sums are being answered perfectly![/quote]

Hahhaa :lol: Yaaaa...mine too...difficult ones he can do, easy wans all sala...alamak what happened, i asked him and he did this :?

[kiasumama]

:idea: hmmmm maybe such kids have brains for difficult tasks!


I would like to derive it as OVERLY CONFIDENCE in such a scenario.

Very often, my son would get all the problems sums correct and the section A or B wrong. With error like...

a) models/working/number sentence - perfect BUT forgot to fill in the answer appropriately

b) all correct and filled in answer but wrote answer wrongly!

c) when asked to circle he went to underline.

[Jolyn]

Dear all


I have a math question as follows:

Jenny and Jonathan collected stamps.
Jenny had 355 stamps.
She exchanged 56 stamps with Jonathan.
Jonathan exhanged 44 stamps with her.
a) How many stamps did Jenny have after giving some stamps to Jonathan?
b) How many stamps did Jenny have finally?

Appreciate if anyone could advise on the above.

[ChiefKiasu]

Jolyn:

Dear all


I have a math question as follows:

Jenny and Jonathan collected stamps.
Jenny had 355 stamps.
She exchanged 56 stamps with Jonathan.
Jonathan exhanged 44 stamps with her.
a) How many stamps did Jenny have after giving some stamps to Jonathan?
b) How many stamps did Jenny have finally?

Appreciate if anyone could advise on the above.

Exchanging stamps imply that you get back another stamp or stamps for each stamp you surrender.

a) 355 - 56 = 299
b) 299 + 44 = 343

[mowmow]

Jolyn:

Dear all


I have a math question as follows:

Jenny and Jonathan collected stamps.
Jenny had 355 stamps.
She exchanged 56 stamps with Jonathan.
Jonathan exhanged 44 stamps with her.
a) How many stamps did Jenny have after giving some stamps to Jonathan?
b) How many stamps did Jenny have finally?

Appreciate if anyone could advise on the above.

Hi,

I think the question did not sound logical. Did Jenny exchange or give stamps with/to Jonathan? The story said \"exchanged\" while the question said \"gave\". So conflicting. If it was exchange, then Chiefkiasu's solution is correct.

[joconde]

mowmow:

Jolyn:

Dear all


I have a math question as follows:

Jenny and Jonathan collected stamps.
Jenny had 355 stamps.
She exchanged 56 stamps with Jonathan.
Jonathan exhanged 44 stamps with her.
a) How many stamps did Jenny have after giving some stamps to Jonathan?
b) How many stamps did Jenny have finally?

Appreciate if anyone could advise on the above.

Hi,

I think the question did not sound logical. Did Jenny exchange or give stamps with/to Jonathan? The story said \"exchanged\" while the question said \"gave\". So conflicting. If it was exchange, then Chiefkiasu's solution is correct.

It seems to me that the person who came out with this question lacks basic written communication skills and is incapable of presenting a problem clearly -- without causing confusion. I also find such problem with my child's school, both Math and Science. Maybe it's time MOE brush up subject teacher's communication skills !

[mowmow]

joconde:

It seems to me that the person who came out with this question lacks basic written communication skills and is incapable of presenting a problem clearly -- without causing confusion. I also find such problem with my child's school, both Math and Science. Maybe it's time MOE brush up subject teacher's communication skills !

Agree. Sometimes, I really wonder about the standards of the teachers in primary schools. My son always comes home with maths questions that are marked wrongly. His answer is correct, but teacher marks him wrong, while his friends whose wrong answers are marked as correct. Always have to make notes for the teacher. On top of that, I am also finding grammar and spelling errors in their STELLAR english worksheets. Really quite worrying, think have to write in to the principal already.

[corneyAmber]

mowmow:

Hi,


I think the question did not sound logical. Did Jenny exchange or give stamps with/to Jonathan? The story said \"exchanged\" while the question said \"gave\". So conflicting. If it was exchange, then Chiefkiasu's solution is correct.

I find the question ok. Exchange has 2 stages, I give, I take or I take, I give. So in this case, give is the stage 1 of an exchange. At the start, exchange is used to suggest that both Jenny and Jonathan make an exchange with each other. Then Question 1 is asking the stage 1 of this exchange, which is how many stamps she has given away and Question 2 is asking after the complete exchange, what has she ended with. However, I do agree that in some Math questions, some questions can be ambiguous due to poor use of English and the other case of marking wrong answers, that is typically a case of refering to standard answer sheet which provides the wrong answers. It happened to us before as the answer was worked out by the curriculum team and the teacher just went ahead to mark based on standard answer sheet. For this, the problem can be reduced if something is done at source.