PSLE - New Format for Maths

[Rason]

tutormum:

I agree totally. I have sent in numerous complaints, suggestions etc and see things done. If nothing is done, I even send a copy to my MP and get immediate response. :lol: It's just a myth that you be black marked. How to make them improve their services if we don't feedback. :heresmyfish:

Hi Tam and Tutormum, the simpler cases may take a simpler route towards plaintiff's satisfaction, however there are the more complex situations that require case studies and extraordinary hearings. It is the lack of convenient / public access to these that increases the risk of unilateralism and group-think - a phenomenon whereby decisions are reached without sufficient deliberation of issues / ideas.

In short, feedback, complaints and suggestions alone are barely enough for arresting some of our (national) problems.

[Rason]

Channel 8's drama serial \"Daddy At Home\" last night spurred this analogy...


I imagined a number problem departing from \"Peanuts and Candies\" to teach kids about wealth management:

In 2008, The Economist reported that Morgan Stanley had estimated the Singapore Government Investment Corporation (GIC) fund's assets to be at US$330 billion. Wall Street Journal reported that the GIC suffered a loss of around 59 billion Singapore dollars in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2009, and its portfolio currently stands at around S$265 billion after drops in equity investments and property valuations.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_Singapore_Investment_Corporation The Singapore National Research Foundation (NRF) under the charge of http://www.singaporebudget.gov.sg/expenditure_overview/pmo.html typically awards university research projects at S$2 million each. If both Morgan Stanley and Wall Street Journal estimations/reports are accurate, find the total number of local university research projects that can otherwise be funded by the GIC's loss starting from 2008.

Or more elementary -

Last year, the Sing family had $450,000 in foreign investments for retirement and household development. Unfortunately this year, it lost 40% in the foreign stocks market. If the Sings are affording public education for children at $2 per student, how many more schooling kids could it have had if the head of family cashed out earlier on the market?


Disclaimer: Just food for thought from all over the internet in a hypothesis, no presumption or endorsement of facts and figures on the author's part to construe misrepresentation and malice.

[ApronMama]

can algebra be used in current PSLE Maths.

[James Ang]

Most of my students get A*/A for PSLE Maths, this exam is fair.


Most of them also get A/A* for PSLE Science. Conclusion is that it is easy to get A/A* for Maths and Science as long as the student is diligent and has someone to teach him the right things.

[tutormum]

My DS3 classmates scored what is expected except for a few shocking (both good and bad) results. This means, more or less what they have got for their prelim. It also seems that all of them got the A* for Maths which they worked very hard for despite the earlier saga. :lol:

[westmom]

It didn’t happen for some…those expected to get A* actually didn’t. I was told that the no of A* may have dropped this year.


Also,i think science was actually a harder paper than Maths this year. Kids didn’t realise it because it’s a subject that answers are not so clear cut…

[mathsparks]

Just to share. My son, after psle maths paper, counted loss of at least 11 marks…prob more but I stopped him from checking further. In the end, he still got his A*.

[tutormum]

Mine got curry puff question wrong due to carelessness. He only knew the 1st step for the angle, ie. equilateral triangle and couldn't see the isosceles angles. Last sweets question, can't do cos he got the ratio mixed up and thought something's wrong with the question. It didn't appear to him that he might have misread the question. :x He was confident that he did well for the rest of the paper and got the other questions that appeared/debated correct. Never doubted that he would get the A* though he lost about 12 marks for these 3 questions.

[chk707]

Y r all the threads dead... :?

[James Ang]

chk707:

Y r all the threads dead... :?

results are out, majority of my students get A/A*, it has shown that the Maths paper is not that bad after all. No more worries, so parents can move on and the thread quieten down thus.