Parents, not enrichment centres, are key to result
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Chenonceau:
laughingcat, your sharing is something of an eye opener for me.
No problem at all. It's time for me to share that too. I actually laughed at myself for being a P5 again last year. Did all the past year papers and also time myself. This year I am P6 again.
IMO, it is really ridiculous on how today's maths has evolved in today's generation. I really wonder are we all killing the joy of doing maths and education. Is it really necessary? -
laughingcat:
Tell you secret... I also did 1 compo and time myself... and pass up to Teacher! I needed to know what exactly the criteria for good writing were because it was such a mystery. :lightrod: It's not just Math... every subject also :siao: .Chenonceau:
laughingcat, your sharing is something of an eye opener for me.
No problem at all. It's time for me to share that too. I actually laughed at myself for being a P5 again last year. Did all the past year papers and also time myself. This year I am P6 again.
IMO, it is really ridiculous on how today's maths has evolved in today's generation. I really wonder are we all killing the joy of doing maths and education. Is it really necessary? -
My experience with teachers are that they are open to any methods that will help the students as long as they know what they are doing. I teach factorization to my P4 students though it is taught in secondary level. The main reason is I feel that's the best method as it leaves very little margin for error/omission even though most students find it very difficult to master in the beginning. This may be due to maturity of the brain as one poster mentioned earlier in the thread. When the school teachers realised that my students are using a different method from what they are teaching, they have no objections. I didn't hear that they use the method after that, so it might be that they have to stick to MOE recommended methods. :censored: However, my students did report that some teachers adapt those nuggets that I used e.g. using fingers for 9 timetable. :imcool:
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Chenonceau:
Tell you secret... I also did 1 compo and time myself... and pass up to Teacher! I needed to know what exactly the criteria for good writing were because it was such a mystery. :lightrod:
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tutormum:
using fingers for 9 timetable. :imcool:
Heh! I also used that to teach my boy too.
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Chenonceau
Your case is similar to a famous Qing’s emperor Kangxi, who was reputed to be highly knowlegable.
According to historical records, he once asked his personal tutor who was famed to hve given rather frank remarks without consideration to his life. "We are of the same standard" replied the tutor. Rather keen to find out his standing vs-a vs the top scholars that sat for the imperial exam, he submitted his essay in another name. None of his senior ministers knew about it. Eventually, he came in second.
He was an intellect and a politically acute king! -
Edureach:
Aaaaaaaaah... but you dunno what mark I got... and I am too embarrassed to tell you... :oops: :oops: :oops: I WISH I could have been some emperor because then maybe I would have scored better.Chenonceau
Your case is similar to a famous Qing's emperor Kangxi, who was reputed to be highly knowlegable.
According to historical records, he once asked his personal tutor who was famed to hve given rather frank remarks without consideration to his life. \"We are of the same standard\" replied the tutor. Rather keen to find out his standing vs-a vs the top scholars that sat for the imperial exam, he submitted his essay in another name. None of his senior ministers knew about it. Eventually, he came in second.
He was an intellect and a politically acute king!
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Chenonceau:
Tell you secret... I also did 1 compo and time myself... and pass up to Teacher! I needed to know what exactly the criteria for good writing were because it was such a mystery. :lightrod: It's not just Math... every subject also :siao: .[/quote]haha Chenon...actually language is more mysterious marking(sometimes I wonder if it depends on teachers mood swings)....compo and compre marking...same for science. So the best one we can expect least ambiguity is Math, but sometimes it still happens.laughingcat:
[quote=\"Chenonceau\"]laughingcat, your sharing is something of an eye opener for me.
No problem at all. It's time for me to share that too. I actually laughed at myself for being a P5 again last year. Did all the past year papers and also time myself. This year I am P6 again.
IMO, it is really ridiculous on how today's maths has evolved in today's generation. I really wonder are we all killing the joy of doing maths and education. Is it really necessary?
laughingcat, I question the same thing sometimes especially when the setters start making strange mistakes in setting the questions, it makes me wonder why are they doing things that they find it tough themselves and trip the kids? Sometimes it's the language, sometimes it is just so ambiguous. I agree to being progressive but with good standards.
Having said this, I must qualify these questions are those set at school levels. -
Hi parents, I like to get some views on Chinese (not Maths!)
I find that the Chinese stuff covered in textbooks (even including those sections for HCL kids) are rather limited and yet the school probably expects proficiency in the language at a much higher standard.
For eg looking at 好朋友 which my kid brought back - a chinese mag which I believe most schools get the kids to subscribe. In order to read and comprehend the stories and do worksheets, you will need to know much more Chinese characters than what is covered in textbooks. Worse, Chinese is a language where you need to learn and internalise each character, one by one - no real shortcut unlike English which you can learn to decode unfamiliar words after a while.
I dont know what standard the school will test at - but I would imagine knowing the stuff in textbooks wont be sufficient. If not for much time spent on learning Chinese through enrichment, I doubt my kid could cope with what is expected even at P1 level. -
Musing, i totally have no regards to chinese syllabus. I can’t help my niece on her chinese…it is already too late for that. I just told her to score as best as possible in compre and compo as they carry the most marks.
As for my DSes since they are young, we just read alot of books to build up the vocab. I just make sure they know the minimum vocab as recommended by the MOE syllabus.
Language is very subjective. You just make sure you build up the vocabs. But for writings, be it english and chinese, i am really lost as well.
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