Maths Assessment Books

[jedamum]

both my kids do not like math.

me and my husband do not like math too.
both my kids are not particularly passionate about any subjects.
me and my husband do not like academic stuff too.
but we are at least disciplined enough to get what is needed to be done, done ie when i cannot inculcate passion, i inculcate responsibility.

[iLoveChubby]

jedamum:

but we are at least disciplined enough to get what is needed to be done, done ie when i cannot inculcate passion, i inculcate responsibility.

I like that. :rahrah:

[laughingcat]

Hi smartmummy, we have completed the whole of P4 maths syllabus. All units have been covered. I am contemplating to start P5 but…i don’t know whether is that the right thing to do.

[smartmummy]

laughingcat:

Hi smartmummy, we have completed the whole of P4 maths syllabus. All units have been covered. I am contemplating to start P5 but.....i don't know whether is that the right thing to do.

Is it the child in mainstream or in GEP?

[laughingcat]

She was selected for GEP but i decided against for it. But this year the school officers overturn our decision and she started her GEP class only this month.


Actually I don’t see any difference between GEP and mainstream, afterall all sit for the same PSLE papers. I feel that GEPers are more busy with all the extra curriculum which i don’t really see any advantage and only reduce the time for other non-academics activities. That is my opinion only.

[jedamum]

laughingcat:

She was selected for GEP but i decided against for it. But this year the school officers overturn our decision and she started her GEP class only this month.


Actually I don't see any difference between GEP and mainstream, afterall all sit for the same PSLE papers. I feel that GEPers are more busy with all the extra curriculum which i don't really see any advantage and only reduce the time for other non-academics activities. That is my opinion only.

oh..so her current sch is a GEP centre ah? so officers still can last minute pull her in.
good exposure for her. if it is meant to be.

[smartmummy]

jedamum:

laughingcat:

She was selected for GEP but i decided against for it. But this year the school officers overturn our decision and she started her GEP class only this month.


Actually I don't see any difference between GEP and mainstream, afterall all sit for the same PSLE papers. I feel that GEPers are more busy with all the extra curriculum which i don't really see any advantage and only reduce the time for other non-academics activities. That is my opinion only.

oh..so her current sch is a GEP centre ah? so officers still can last minute pull her in.
good exposure for her. if it is meant to be.

Sorry for off topic, but I think all benefit here. If she didn't join GEP she would bore. That's the reason for the GEP curriculum. I know a boy he can do p3 in P1. Now he is in GEP.
Now u no need to worry what to teach. She will be very busy with her projects or still she have time?

[2ppaamm]

laughingcat:

She was selected for GEP but i decided against for it. But this year the school officers overturn our decision and she started her GEP class only this month.


Actually I don't see any difference between GEP and mainstream, afterall all sit for the same PSLE papers. I feel that GEPers are more busy with all the extra curriculum which i don't really see any advantage and only reduce the time for other non-academics activities. That is my opinion only.

If she's my kid, I would teach her P5 and P6 Maths, and then P5 and P6 Science, and then P5 and P6 English this year. And then Secondary school work. I'll take the kid out of GEP and in 4 years, she should be in the uni. She'll be 5 yeas ahead of her peers. :evil: That's just me, though.

[phtthp]

hi 2ppaamm,


can share why you choose this sequence - Maths, Science then English ?

[2ppaamm]

Maths - because that's my favourite subject, and also my husband's and also all my kids'. And also because laughing cat's dd seem to have interest. Science and English does not really matter. English - I doubt our local syllabus anyway, so I have my own system. Science - I don't really have a clue what is happening locally, I find what they do 'cute' but meaningless, including what's happening in GEP and those do-at-home-aka-parents-do projects (very cute) and those parents-do-children-get credit star programs... I don't like homework from my children's school at 40+, also don't like to do primary science, I'm not in Primary 30+, so I just provide lots of books and encyclopedia, subscribe to magazines. The kids read a whole lot and research themselves, they accelerate themselves without my effort. Once they love Science, they will do well. (My kids have some PSLE A* for science for me to boast about hehe...:)). So I live by that for Science, level-less learning. So in that case, how do you teach at which level? There's no level :? You can cover a whole term's work in a day if there is interest. (e.g. my p3 did planets, continents, seas and oceans in one day because he was so interested)


So there's no particular order. Just that Singapore Primary Maths is the only one worth looking at (even so, I also have different thoughts about the way it is executed in our schools), and the rest of the primary subjects are quite pathetic and narrow :skeptical: . For my kids, I would skip right through them and do something more meaningful like research and exposure. But that's just me again.