2011 PSLE Discussions and Strategy

[Leanne]

Hi Brenda,


Hopefully ds doing past year paper will not find it so challenging anymore...


cheers
Leanne

Brenda10:

Leanne:

Hi Brenda,

Agreed.DS finished the whole of A star speed topic and almost in tears with a few questions.


Cheers
Leanne

Hi Leanne

True. We have similar experinece when doing AStar booklet. I would say this is the tougher among all the 7 booklets.

[Brenda10]

Leanne:

Hi Brenda,


Hopefully ds doing past year paper will not find it so challenging anymore...


cheers
Leanne

Hi Leanne

I am not too worried as this is the exercise that helps them to understand and learn various methods to attempt to question.

I also tell dd to KIV and escalate the problem if she still cannot understand after her teacher teaches.

Cheers

[Leanne]

Hi Brenda,


Will speed topic be tested in the coming sa1?


Regards,
Leanne

Brenda10:

Leanne:

Hi Brenda,

Hopefully ds doing past year paper will not find it so challenging anymore...


cheers
Leanne

Hi Leanne

I am not too worried as this is the exercise that helps them to understand and learn various methods to attempt to question.

I also tell dd to KIV and escalate the problem if she still cannot understand after her teacher teaches.

Cheers

[Brenda10]

Leanne:

Hi Brenda,


Will speed topic be tested in the coming sa1?


Regards,
Leanne

Hi Leanne

100% will be tested since the exam is on 1st week of May and there will be sufficient time to cover this topic. Don't think any school want to take the risk to skip this critical topic to prelim.
Just my 2 cents thought

Best Regards

[Leanne]

Hi Brenda,


Thanks.When will your dd teacher be teaching speed?Its quite a short time to master this topic before sa1.

That set us worri.


Rgds
Leanne

Brenda10:

Leanne:

Hi Brenda,

Will speed topic be tested in the coming sa1?


Regards,
Leanne

Hi Leanne

100% will be tested since the exam is on 1st week of May and there will be sufficient time to cover this topic. Don't think any school want to take the risk to skip this critical topic to prelim.
Just my 2 cents thought

Best Regards

[Brenda10]

Leanne:

Hi Brenda,


Thanks.When will your dd teacher be teaching speed?Its quite a short time to master this topic before sa1.

That set us worri.


Rgds
Leanne

Hi Leanne

I think should be the beginning of the week lah and we should have sufficient time to practice.

[Leanne]

Hi Brenda,


Really hope so.

I am not sure how ds can catch up on this, as the methods in solving the speed question still not very good.


Rgds
Leanne

Brenda10:

Leanne:

Hi Brenda,

Thanks.When will your dd teacher be teaching speed?Its quite a short time to master this topic before sa1.

That set us worri.


Rgds
Leanne

Hi Leanne

I think should be the beginning of the week lah and we should have sufficient time to practice.

[pixiedust]

Mommies, you are all still working very hard this term break!

So you actually self-teach the maths topics before the school ?
So far I try to keep pace with the school but getting into term2 of P5, I am re-thinking.

Leanne:

..Did you happen to buy the series of math tricks,think its by raffles or something like that ?Think have a few series.
Anyone bought?

Leanne, I bought based on strong recommendation of my neighbour whose dd did very well for PSLE maths. It is very unlike onSponge, A* booklets etc but more on the systematical thinking, visual spatial kind of questions eg. climbing stairs, expotentially how many boxes at position xth...those kind. Not grouped according to P4/5/6 or topics eg. fraction, speed but the type of problem so some are simpler and some more complex.

The books are actually published by the same people running the speedmaths camps for P6s. For each type of questions, a fast method to derive solution is provided. I feel it still takes tutor/parent to explain the concept so it is understood instead of just memorising the procedure.

[Brenda10]

Leanne:

Hi Brenda,


Really hope so.

I am not sure how ds can catch up on this, as the methods in solving the speed question still not very good.


Rgds
Leanne

Hi Leanne

I think the only way is to expose to all types of questions that ask under speed and hopefully they gain enough experience to attempt to the questions.

Best Regards

[Leanne]

Thank you pixiedust.


Can u pls share which book you are referring to?thanks



rgds

Leanne

pixiedust:

Mommies, you are all still working very hard this term break!
So you actually self-teach the maths topics before the school ?
So far I try to keep pace with the school but getting into term2 of P5, I am re-thinking.

Leanne:

..Did you happen to buy the series of math tricks,think its by raffles or something like that ?Think have a few series.
Anyone bought?

Leanne, I bought based on strong recommendation of my neighbour whose dd did very well for PSLE maths. It is very unlike onSponge, A* booklets etc but more on the systematical thinking, visual spatial kind of questions eg. climbing stairs, expotentially how many boxes at position xth...those kind. Not grouped according to P4/5/6 or topics eg. fraction, speed but the type of problem so some are simpler and some more complex.

The books are actually published by the same people running the speedmaths camps for P6s. For each type of questions, a fast method to derive solution is provided. I feel it still takes tutor/parent to explain the concept so it is understood instead of just memorising the procedure.