PSLE - New Format for Maths

[atutor2001]

HoSayLiao:

...Also, permutations and combinations will also be useful. My students will then be able to explain to the mothers why 4D got 24 beatings...

I like that. Then they will learn earlier not to be so silly to waste money on TOTO :lol:

[James Ang]

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PSLE Maths: post mortem - my view
There are some new and unfamiliar questions in this year's PSLE Maths paper, therefore many students find these questions difficult to solve. I think one important reason is due to the use of calculators for PSLE Maths from 2009 onwards. Another possible reason is the not-so-straightforward language used in the phrasing of these Maths questions which makes it important for students to understand the questions well before they can solve them.

On hindsight, many will find the questions are now possible to solve quickly even easily, but it was not really the case while under the exam conditions faced by the P6 cohort of students during PSLE Maths this year. I expect the trend for future PSLE Maths exam questions to be of similar level of difficulty or higher, from now onwards.

[James Ang]

Mandy-Alex:

HoSayLiao:

Hi, i am a private maths tutor. After seeing some of the more difficult questions, I think we can give up on drawing models liao. Next year onwards, i will be teaching my P6 students algebra and for good measure, trigonometry (Python's theorem and toa cah soh).


That is the way to go!!!

Hi Liao,
Would you like to translate for those, who don't speak Chinese Mandarin or any Dialect of Chinese! \"Toa cah soh\" - :roll:?
Thanks in advance!
Mandy

Mandy,

TOA CAH SOH is Singapore students' (and teachers') interpretation of trigonometry ratios;

TOA - Tangent is Opposite/Adjacent sides
CAH - Cosine is Adjacent/Hypothenuse sides
SOH - Sine is Opposite/Hypothenuse sides

TOA CAH SOH is invented by Singapore but never officially appear in any textbook or guides of reputable standard. Because it smacks of \"hokkien\" dialect connotations.

In the past, my maths teacher said \"On Her Majesty Service\" - OHMS => Opposite/Hypothenuse Means Sine! More classy, (but she didn't teach Tangent and Cosine! :p)

[Muffins]

HoSayLiao:

Hi, i am a private maths tutor. After seeing some of the more difficult questions, I think we can give up on drawing models liao. Next year onwards, i will be teaching my P6 students algebra and for good measure, trigonometry (Python's theorem and toa cah soh).


That is the way to go!!!

By the way HoSayLiao,
It is Pythagoras' theorem, not python's theorem...

[Mandy-Alex]

James Ang:

Mandy-Alex:

[quote=\"HoSayLiao\"]Hi, i am a private maths tutor. After seeing some of the more difficult questions, I think we can give up on drawing models liao. Next year onwards, i will be teaching my P6 students algebra and for good measure, trigonometry (Python's theorem and toa cah soh).


That is the way to go!!!

Hi Liao,
Would you like to translate for those, who don't speak Chinese Mandarin or any Dialect of Chinese! \"Toa cah soh\" - :roll:?
Thanks in advance!
Mandy

Mandy,

TOA CAH SOH is Singapore students' (and teachers') interpretation of trigonometry ratios;

TOA - Tangent is Opposite/Adjacent sides
CAH - Cosine is Adjacent/Hypothenuse sides
SOH - Sine is Opposite/Hypothenuse sides

TOA CAH SOH is invented by Singapore but never officially appear in any textbook or guides of reputable standard. Because it smacks of \"hokkien\" dialect connotations.

In the past, my maths teacher said \"On Her Majesty Service\" - OHMS => Opposite/Hypothenuse Means Sine! More classy, (but she didn't teach Tangent and Cosine! :p)[/quote]

Thanks James Ang,
It's good to know this, cos I will be my daughter's tutor in Secondary School as well. But we are not Chinese, that's why may be \"TOA CAH SOH\" will not work like a good association for her. Any way I am \"kiasu\" for everything, which related to Maths!
Great weekend!
Regards!

Mandy

[Mandy-Alex]

James Ang,


I definitely will get from your maths teacher, in the past, "On Her Majesty Service"!

Mandy

[millan]

Mandy-Alex:

James Ang,


I definitely will get from your maths teacher, in the past, \"On Her Majesty Service\"!

Mandy

Hi My son has taken the PSLE this, he voted that the paper is easy, but he has fallen in with careless mistake. Actually, he ever mentioned that whenever there 's diificult problem,the top girl in class will use algebra to solve. It is traditional , but it works.Model is beautiful but your mind needs to think in broad base.

[faggyboot]

parent135:

hey im serious the paper very easy


kk maybe somewhat difficult but at least i finished everything and never leave any blank and never guess any

it's not easy...but you can't call it very hard either. the questions just require more time to finish.

[faggyboot]

YGmama:

My gal's ans as follow:


Geometry - 150
Speed - 11:45pm
Curry puff - 71
Average height - 21
Raj's pay - $1170
last question for paper 2 - 68
last question for paper 1, booklet B - 17/35

Cheers:0

cool! for all the questions which answers I still remember, I got the same ones:)

[faggyboot]

parent135:

yay i hoped maths paper difficult and english paper easy and its true! :lol:

same here:)