GEP kids and their parents

[metz]

verykiasu2010:

oso, I read long time ago that musical trainings do help to wire the brain in a certain way that improves the math / spatial aspect ..... imagine the eye / hand co-ordination with accurate hearing

eye - score reading
hand - on the string / key board
hearing - perception / interpretation / feedback to hand etc .... to me all these are quite complex, and cannot 离谱

I can attest to the complexity part. A simple grade 2-3 song is enough to give me headache. :slapshead:

But before any potential parent rush off to engage music teachers for their children, I just wish to add on that learning music doesn't necessary equate to \"nurturing\" or \"training for\" giftedness. There are kids who have been learning music (double instruments) since young but didn't make it past the second round. In fact, one that I know passed grade 5 exams for both violin and piano in P3. Another took cello (can't remember the grade) and piano (grade 3), and parents are both doctors (think father is a specialist). Both are top students in their respective schools.

[phtthp]

it's interesting to look at profile of both parents, to test if good genes are passed down .... both (Nature + Nurture) are crucial.

[metz]

phtthp:

Sheldon's mother, Dr Lee Tung Jean, a 35-year-old civil servant who holds a PhD in economics from Oxford University, said her son has been been doing maths puzzles and raiding the bookshops for maths textbooks and assessment books since he was three years old.

:rotflmao: Looks like we'll see more parents with 3-year-olds raiding Popular Bookstore for Primary school textbooks and assessment books soon.

Just joking.

[phtthp]

:rotflmao: come and raid BookFest @ Singapore 2011


18 November - 27 November 2011
http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=8964&p=611318

[markfch]

verykiasu2010:

chamonix:

Back to GEP, heard from my sister that a large number of those who cleared round 1 in her dd's school (about 30 of them) are learning music instruments. Incidentally, my niece, who cleared round 1, takes piano and ballet lessons.


Any observation of such correlation in your child's sch?

oso, I read long time ago that musical trainings do help to wire the brain in a certain way that improves the math / spatial aspect ..... imagine the eye / hand co-ordination with accurate hearing

eye - score reading
hand - on the string / key board
hearing - perception / interpretation / feedback to hand etc .... to me all these are quite complex, and cannot 离谱

Another 3 hypothesis could be -

- parents who bother to send their kids for music lessons are usually more involved in their kids' work.

- parents who send their kids for music lessons usually have deeper pockets to send them for other enrichment classes.

- intelligent kids will do better both in studies and in music. So it's not the music that makes the kids smarter. It's that the kids are already smart, so can play musical instruments well.

Just to mix it up a bit, haha. :siam:

[verykiasu2010]

phtthp:

from Straits Times:-


Sheldon Tan, 11, scores distinction in O-level Maths & Additional Maths :-
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IF THERE is one subject Sheldon Tan, 11, looks assured of scoring an A* for at the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) this year, it is Mathematics.

He has already bagged distinctions in Mathematics and Additional mathematics at O level.
.......
Sheldon's mother, Dr Lee Tung Jean, a 35-year-old civil servant who holds a PhD in economics from Oxford University, said her son has been been doing maths puzzles and raiding the bookshops for maths textbooks and assessment books since he was three years old.

His father Gary Tan, 35, a deputy director at a statutory board, said: 'We believe in sufficient rest and want him to be in bed by 9pm every day. But he has no problem doing that. He also has time to play with his brother and sister and play computer games. He is very organised.'

reference source:-
http://www.asiaone.com/News/Education/Story/A1Story20100214-198663.html

parents' age is 35 when the son is 11 y/o

parents' age when son was born : 24

so age of marriage = 23 at the latest

age when finished A level = 18, plus 2.5 years NS = 21

so between age 21 to 23 gone to uni get a degree and get a wife for the father and for the mother, from first degree to Phd in 5 years immediately after A level ... wow

sorry for the :offtopic:

[jtoh]

verykiasu2010:

phtthp:

from Straits Times:-


Sheldon Tan, 11, scores distinction in O-level Maths & Additional Maths :-
================================================================

IF THERE is one subject Sheldon Tan, 11, looks assured of scoring an A* for at the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) this year, it is Mathematics.

He has already bagged distinctions in Mathematics and Additional mathematics at O level.
.......
Sheldon's mother, Dr Lee Tung Jean, a 35-year-old civil servant who holds a PhD in economics from Oxford University, said her son has been been doing maths puzzles and raiding the bookshops for maths textbooks and assessment books since he was three years old.

His father Gary Tan, 35, a deputy director at a statutory board, said: 'We believe in sufficient rest and want him to be in bed by 9pm every day. But he has no problem doing that. He also has time to play with his brother and sister and play computer games. He is very organised.'

reference source:-
http://www.asiaone.com/News/Education/Story/A1Story20100214-198663.html

parents' age is 35 when the son is 11 y/o

parents' age when son was born : 24

so age of marriage = 23 at the latest

age when finished A level = 18, plus 2.5 years NS = 21

so between age 21 to 23 gone to uni get a degree and get a wife for the father and for the mother, from first degree to Phd in 5 years immediately after A level ... wow

sorry for the :offtopic:

Interesting.

[verykiasu2010]

jtoh:

verykiasu2010:

[quote=\"phtthp\"]from Straits Times:-


Sheldon Tan, 11, scores distinction in O-level Maths & Additional Maths :-
================================================================

IF THERE is one subject Sheldon Tan, 11, looks assured of scoring an A* for at the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) this year, it is Mathematics.

He has already bagged distinctions in Mathematics and Additional mathematics at O level.
.......
Sheldon's mother, Dr Lee Tung Jean, a 35-year-old civil servant who holds a PhD in economics from Oxford University, said her son has been been doing maths puzzles and raiding the bookshops for maths textbooks and assessment books since he was three years old.

His father Gary Tan, 35, a deputy director at a statutory board, said: 'We believe in sufficient rest and want him to be in bed by 9pm every day. But he has no problem doing that. He also has time to play with his brother and sister and play computer games. He is very organised.'

reference source:-
http://www.asiaone.com/News/Education/Story/A1Story20100214-198663.html

parents' age is 35 when the son is 11 y/o

parents' age when son was born : 24

so age of marriage = 23 at the latest

age when finished A level = 18, plus 2.5 years NS = 21

so between age 21 to 23 gone to uni get a degree and get a wife for the father and for the mother, from first degree to Phd in 5 years immediately after A level ... wow

sorry for the :offtopic:

Interesting.[/quote]one possible conclusion : younger smarter parents produce even smarter kids

disclaimer : I am not implying the other way round :siam:

[phankao]

verykiasu2010:

phtthp:

from Straits Times:-


Sheldon Tan, 11, scores distinction in O-level Maths & Additional Maths :-
================================================================

IF THERE is one subject Sheldon Tan, 11, looks assured of scoring an A* for at the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) this year, it is Mathematics.

He has already bagged distinctions in Mathematics and Additional mathematics at O level.
.......
Sheldon's mother, Dr Lee Tung Jean, a 35-year-old civil servant who holds a PhD in economics from Oxford University, said her son has been been doing maths puzzles and raiding the bookshops for maths textbooks and assessment books since he was three years old.

His father Gary Tan, 35, a deputy director at a statutory board, said: 'We believe in sufficient rest and want him to be in bed by 9pm every day. But he has no problem doing that. He also has time to play with his brother and sister and play computer games. He is very organised.'

reference source:-
http://www.asiaone.com/News/Education/Story/A1Story20100214-198663.html

parents' age is 35 when the son is 11 y/o

parents' age when son was born : 24

so age of marriage = 23 at the latest

age when finished A level = 18, plus 2.5 years NS = 21

so between age 21 to 23 gone to uni get a degree and get a wife for the father and for the mother, from first degree to Phd in 5 years immediately after A level ... wow

sorry for the :offtopic:

My aunt who has a doctorate and studied it under scholarship, was \"pak-toring\" with boyfriend while during Pre-U. She got married right after 1st degree, then with husband left together to London to do her Masters, then PhD, and they had 2 babies along the way. While they were studying, the children went to childcare.

So, you think Sheldon, likely was \"brought up\" in his early days in British childcare? Maybe managed to defer NS. My neighbour's daughter under GIC scholarship did masters in 4yrs, I think - in London School of Economics.

[jtoh]

verykiasu2010:

jtoh:

[quote=\"verykiasu2010\"]
parents' age is 35 when the son is 11 y/o

parents' age when son was born : 24

so age of marriage = 23 at the latest

age when finished A level = 18, plus 2.5 years NS = 21

so between age 21 to 23 gone to uni get a degree and get a wife for the father and for the mother, from first degree to Phd in 5 years immediately after A level ... wow

sorry for the :offtopic:

Interesting.

one possible conclusion : younger smarter parents produce even smarter kids

disclaimer : I am not implying the other way round :siam:[/quote]Hahha! I was thinking the same thing.