Preparing kids for P5 in 2011

[janet88]

Brenda10:

It seems for P5 to P6, more focus will be on Maths and the time spent on the other three subjects like EL, CL and Science are totally no match.

Just my 2 cents thought

Yes I feel that way...hubby has asked for more time to coach son in Maths but I reminded him results for other 3 subjects are not that fantastic either. This morning, I went to Popular Expo sale for a look...put P5, P6 Casco Maths guide books with full examples in trolley to ask hubby to take a look if there were useful...he didn't even look and told me parking is too expensive for him to go through them and paid for them.

:offtopic: Expo parking rates. Mon to Fri. 1st hour $2.50. Subsequent 1 hour $1.50.

[Chenonceau]

janet_lee88:

Brenda10:

It seems for P5 to P6, more focus will be on Maths and the time spent on the other three subjects like EL, CL and Science are totally no match.

Just my 2 cents thought

Yes I feel that way...hubby has asked for more time to coach son in Maths but I reminded him results for other 3 subjects are not that fantastic either. This morning, I went to Popular Expo sale for a look...took P5, P6 Casco Maths guide books with full examples to ask hubby to take a look if there were useful...he didn't even look and told me parking is too expensive for him to go through them.

:offtopic: Expo parking rates. Mon to Fri. 1st hour $2.50. Subsequent 1 hour $1.50.

:offtopic: I almost fainted today at Marina Bay Sands. I brought my son to the museum there to look at the Genghis Khan exhibition. We stayed about 5 hours and the parking was $15!!

Back to topic, I like Fabian Ng's Problem Solving Processes in Mathematics. It has worked solutions and teaches the different processes systematically.

[pixiedust]

Chenonceau, thanks for sharing. Your strategy re: school papers is :salute:


I used Fabian Ng P2-P4, I like the systematic approach too.

We seem to be spending most time on CL and getting least return from the time.
Just got to keep ploughing on

Term 2 will start in 2 days, let's enjoy this weekend ! :celebrate:

[Chenonceau]

pixiedust:

We seem to be spending most time on CL and getting least return from the time.
Just got to keep ploughing on

Sigh... I feel that way too. We spend so much time on Chinese and the progress seems so slow.

[szepinge]

Hi,


Just my 2 cents worth.
As a current P5 school teacher, the most crucial year is P5, where
most of the new topics are taught.

Many students who scored 70+ for maths in P4, failed P5.
If the foundation for P5 topics and prob solving skills are not built,
in P6, it will be fighting fire.

So, please spend more time on maths,
especially problem solving skills.

[Chenonceau]

szepinge:

Hi,


Just my 2 cents worth.
As a current P5 school teacher, the most crucial year is P5, where
most of the new topics are taught.

Many students who scored 70+ for maths in P4, failed P5.
If the foundation for P5 topics and prob solving skills are not built,
in P6, it will be fighting fire.

So, please spend more time on maths,
especially problem solving skills.

Thank you. I didn't know that. But he seems alright with the practice SA1s.

[janet88]

pixiedust:

We seem to be spending most time on CL and getting least return from the time. Just got to keep ploughing on

Term 2 will start in 2 days, let's enjoy this weekend ! :celebrate:

I get Fabian Ng's Problem-Solving Processes every year. Realized Maths assessment books for upper primary seem to be slightly different recently...with new publications like Challenging Maths Problems, Visible Thinking & Onsponge.

Hi szepinge,
Thanks for your advice.
I agree with you Maths is a different ballgame in P5. My son did ok in P4 but this year, even Section A was something he couldn't manage. Starting from next Mon, will revert to the basic to build his foundation.

[Brenda10]

janet_lee88:

Brenda10:

It seems for P5 to P6, more focus will be on Maths and the time spent on the other three subjects like EL, CL and Science are totally no match.

Just my 2 cents thought

Yes I feel that way...hubby has asked for more time to coach son in Maths but I reminded him results for other 3 subjects are not that fantastic either. This morning, I went to Popular Expo sale for a look...put P5, P6 Casco Maths guide books with full examples in trolley to ask hubby to take a look if there were useful...he didn't even look and told me parking is too expensive for him to go through them and paid for them.

:offtopic: Expo parking rates. Mon to Fri. 1st hour $2.50. Subsequent 1 hour $1.50.

Yes. Have to allocate time especially for CL compo. which need time to build up. We started once a week since P4 and only see the good result recently. As such has to start as early as possible to build up the language.

[Brenda10]

Chenonceau:

Back to topic, I like Fabian Ng's Problem Solving Processes in Mathematics. It has worked solutions and teaches the different processes systematically.

Thanks for sharing. I did not buy this book as I only get to know this title from the forum this year. I went to popular to flip through and agree it is very systematically. However, have to scrap the idea of getting it as we may not able to complete since we have exam papers and other assessment books on hand and on addition school have started given running revision sheets.

[janet88]

HI Brenda,

A friend of mine advised me to get son to start memorizing the kai1 tou2 (introduction) and jie2 wei3 (conclusion).

Challenging Maths Problems by Ammiel Wan is too tough…think have to use Challenging Problems by Andrew Er to start with as it’s not too tough’. Have to push son to improve in his Section A…intensive revision w.e.f tomorrow as there is SA1.