is it possible to teach p4 math ourselves?

[Brenda10]

Hi, I would think is possible to teach P4 maths ourselves.


Just to share with you DD maths at end of P3 was 80 marks and at the beginning of P4 CA1 dropped to 66 marks.

We immediately allocated almost 50% of time working on top school past year papers (head start before the SA1) and three month later she scored 82 for the SA1 followed by 95 on SA2.

[Trina]

i prefer to teach Maths myself. I do admit that it takes time for parents to understand the concept first before explaining to child as the method of problem solving differs from our time. But the plus point is that we would be able to guide the child 24/7 compared to tuition that happens only once a week. Worse if in a class as teacher will not be able to address the needs of all children in class.

[Niedino]

Trina:

i prefer to teach Maths myself. I do admit that it takes time for parents to understand the concept first before explaining to child as the method of problem solving differs from our time. But the plus point is that we would be able to guide the child 24/7 compared to tuition that happens only once a week. Worse if in a class as teacher will not be able to address the needs of all children in class.

I guess if you could, the best of both worlds would be to have someone experienced to guide them along and have the parents monitor the work regularly. Even with tuition, parental support is key to helping your child do well. It's just like engaging a personal trainer, you will still need to be disciplined with your diet and training on your own, and the trainer is there to guide you.

[Julia Koh]

Hi,


it is definitely possible to teach P4 math… just really need to get the children to practice alot and teach them the various short cuts and rationale behind all the sums… hmmm if you need, i heard that Andrew Er’s assessments are not bad. You can try going through these with your children…

[24hr-mum]

stimes my girl doesnt wanna cooperate with me esp for problem sums…

[miaoster]

Hi all mummies,

i do face the same problems as most of the mummies.
i engage private tutor, one to one coach to teach my daughter. she is currently p4 in ATS.
yes, i agreed. when she was in p1, p2, maths no problem, band 1. p3 band 2.
To tell u all, when come to p4, i dont know why, or maybe she still cannot adapt to her p4 style, or standard, she dropped to b3, which is only border line for her maths. i get worried. she was very sad when she got back her results.
i spoke to her tutor regards her maths, and we tried our best to help her.
come to SA1, she went to her battle again. but still, border line.
of course, i am angry with her, and dun know what happen to her and something must be wrong somewhere else.
Actually, do come to my mind, i tried to engage another tutor, which mean that 2 maths tutor for her. i did told my current tutor about the matter. but she discourage me. She told me that if i engage another tutor for her, she had to stop teaching my girl. the reason is the more maths tutor she facing, the more confused she will be.
in the end, i trusted my current tutor. we brushed her up during the shcool holidays, on her weak topics and i liaise with her maths teacher too.
again is CA2, her maths examination again. to my surprise, she scored well in her maths. she got a band 2, 81marks for her maths. she was very happy, of course, me too.
Now, still with her current tutor, she had the initiative to do her maths homework and she is enjoying her maths now.
What i wish to say is that, do not engage many tutor for the kids. this will make the child confuse. must stay with the child mind, and what are they tinking with the maths problems. do not use adult method way of doing the question, always must put yrself in their shoe. i do urgue with my husband regards maths question too. he used his adult method, i dun understand what he is teaching. in the end, i bring the whole question to my girl’s tutor.
now, no matter what, if i face a question i dun understand, i will bring the question to the tutor and asking her a favour to teach me. in order for the kids to understand, first of all, we adult must understand the question too.

[24hr-mum]

i M contemplating to teach myslf cos tuition centres or even pte tutor (unlike can find realy gd ones but it wid b ex too) may not address their specific weaknesses.

[smartmummy]

24hr-mum:

i M contemplating to teach myslf cos tuition centres or even pte tutor (unlike can find realy gd ones but it wid b ex too) may not address their specific weaknesses.

I agree with u parents only address the their specific weakness and teach them.
I also in the same boat send to tution or not.My DH only asked me to send.cos he think son never study with me.If send then he will study.But the problem is they attend tuition for 1 and a half hours a week.If we send a tution also we need to give papers and mark.Nowardays I strict him do one subject a day.but for each subject need two days.cos we do Maths he can do Section A and B in a day and do the section C in another day. Languages composition need to do another day.
I sent my son for kumon for one year,but his grade go down.Then I stopped and I taught and found his weakness and his grade go up.Now his grade again go down cos lack practise.After CA2 I just strict him to follow the time table.Still I feel not enough practise for Maths.one paper for one week is enough for P3?

[24hr-mum]

my girl now has tuition for all subjects, as in for languages its just the compo writing, not the enrichment part. she doesnt hv much time to do exam papers. she still do, but choose n whine. for eng, no problem. she do super fast. for math, super slow. but i find while the tuition improves her model drawing, there are some weakness in her thinkg whc not addressed by group tuition. pte tutor will be too ex, close to 200 a mth.

[24hr-mum]

to me, i nvr tried kumon but my impression is it helps in section a and b, but problem sums。。。。will it help??