2013 PSLE Discussions and Strategy

[AdonciaTang]

TheAnswer:

Speed is not a topic that can be mastered easily. If the school teaches them early, it's a good thing.

Yeap agree. Its quite a long topic and must memorize the table of the formula. Glad that DS school teaching and he practicing in school and for tuition now.

[mummy so kiasu]

Suz855:

ngl2010:

[quote=\"Suz855\"]Saw my dd working on MPAH speed qns today, am sure her teacher has cover it already .... Cheers

When I told my son that your dd is doing speed qns already, his comment was \"My school is well known to be slow\" :faint: . Speed is a difficult topic. I wish his school has started teaching it so we will have plenty of time to practice.

Am pleasantly surprise too, think dd 's teacher rushing to covered the Maths syllabus by term2 then probably it will be practice papers all the way to psle, wonder now whether it will be overdose ....
:oops:[/quote]It is normal for school to complete syllabus by term 2. Revision for Prelim & PSLE will follow.

[mummy so kiasu]

Suz855:

ngl2010:

[quote=\"Suz855\"]Saw my dd working on MPAH speed qns today, am sure her teacher has cover it already .... Cheers

When I told my son that your dd is doing speed qns already, his comment was \"My school is well known to be slow\" :faint: . Speed is a difficult topic. I wish his school has started teaching it so we will have plenty of time to practice.

Am pleasantly surprise too, think dd 's teacher rushing to covered the Maths syllabus by term2 then probably it will be practice papers all the way to psle, wonder now whether it will be overdose ....
:oops:[/quote]It is normal for school to complete syllabus by term 2. Revision for Prelim & PSLE will follow.

[JJ1111]

mummy so kiasu:

Suz855:

Am pleasantly surprise too, think dd 's teacher rushing to covered the Maths syllabus by term2 then probably it will be practice papers all the way to psle, wonder now whether it will be overdose ....
:oops:

It is normal for school to complete syllabus by term 2. Revision for Prelim & PSLE will follow.

Yap, my dd school will also finish the syllabus by term 2. Term 3 onward will start to revise for PSLE.

[Jennifer]

Hwa Chong 2013 DSA application details


http://www.hci.edu.sg/admissions/high_school/admission-routes#dsa

Online Registration only, starts 25th May 2013, closing date 3rd June.

[Jennifer]

ACS (Independent) DSA year 1 open house on 13th Apr 2013 (Sat)


http://sites.acsindep.edu.sg/dsayear1/

[Jennifer]

Raffles Institution 2013 DSA, starts 22nd April, closing date 2nd July


http://www.ri.edu.sg/main/announcementdetail/?id=139

[Jennifer]

MOE list of DSA secondary schools for 2013 not out yet.


This is the link for 2012 http://www.moe.gov.sg/education/admissions/dsa-sec/participating-schools/

[JohnYeo]

AdonciaTang:

TheAnswer:

Speed is not a topic that can be mastered easily. If the school teaches them early, it's a good thing.

Yeap agree. Its quite a long topic and must memorize the table of the formula. Glad that DS school teaching and he practicing in school and for tuition now.

Hi,

I'm just wondering what do you mean when you say Speed is a \"long\" topic with \"table of the formula\".

I was just browsing through the P6 text book (just to make sure) and there are only 2 important concepts, understanding and finding Speed and Average Speed.

One of the easier to remember the formula is the triangle.


Distance
-----------
Speed | Time

Distance = Speed x Time
Speed = Distance / Time
Time = Distance / Speed

One easy way to remember is to remember \"Slow Turtle\"

So S and T is at the bottom of the triangle.

I think the few other important concepts to know is
to convert the units from km to m to cm and vice versa.
And also hr to seconds.
And also km/h to m/ min to cm/ s

And make sure your child knows how to transfer the info from the question to the distance/time line and able to label all the point and direction correctly.

Feel free to add other important concepts to know about Speed.

Cheers,
John

[Mama Mania]

http://www.todayonline.com/voices/not-way-prepare-psle


When will school/MOE ever ever wake up to what it is doing to its pupils.