P2 Math - General Discussion

[lizuan76]

Plum cake,


Any P1 math assesment books that cover the question you are posting?

My girl told me she is learning that too.

[Tinkerbelle]

plum-cake:

Tinkerbelle:

Hi plum-cake,

It depends on how challenging the questions are. My DD generally can solve routine problem sums within the P2 syllabus (when she's not too careless), however, when the questions get too challenging, I'll still need to guide her through.

Give your DD some time to adapt to all the lenghty problem sums in P2. Sometimes, it's not beacuse she's not good in maths, but rather because there are too many sentences to digest. Encourage your DD to take her time and read the question carefully, even twice if necessary. Break down the whole question into smaller digestible parts and work on each part.

I find that for challenging questions, when I go through each part with DD slowly, she's able to solve the question. Lots of practice does help too. Most importantly, I also encourage DD...tell her she's not bad in maths.... so that she doesn't lose confidence in herself.

All the best. :lol:

Thank you Tinkerbelle for taking time to answer my question.
Thank you for your valuable advices.

Tinkerbelle:

I try not to give DD problem sums that are way beyond her limits....don't want to kill her interest.

Not really I only have p2 books. Fabian Ng & Andrew ER. She try to read the whole Q and answer. but I asked her to read again and in the 2nd time try to make number sentence for each sentence.

Some Qs have 2 questions where you have to solve the first part to find the 2nd one. And some comes with mixed operations. she only thinks about the add/substraction signs forgetting the other two.

Tinkerbelle:

Currently, DD's sch is using http://www.problemsums.com I find it useful as DD is motivated to solve the simple questions and then move on to the more challenging ones.. Maybe you can check if your DD's sch is using it?

Yes my dd's school is also using that. The subscription is up to the end of march. You can try this one as well http://www.thinkingblocks.com/TB_AS/tb_as3.html
Thank you very much. we are going to practice more during the half term break...

Hi plum cake,

Thanks so much for sharing the link. :lol:

How did your DD go with her first CA1 maths paper? Hope she did well. DD2 lost marks for her last problem sum. It requires 4 steps to solve the question and she missed out on the last step because she forgot to add one part of her model.....so careless.

[Tinkerbelle]

plum-cake:

Flipper123:

I disagree. I am a P5 boy and I think my school is slower. I only did divide when I was P3.

I have this Q from my dd's P1 paper.

its in pictures.

Moon + Moon = 10
Star + Moon =15

Star = _____

you have to divide to find the moon's value but not in the name of DIVISION?

I must say you are lucky that you didn't face these type of questions then.

Hi flipper & plum-cake,

My DD also had similar questions last year in P1. Guess the schs are exposing lower pri students to heuristic type questions earlier so it won't be a shock to their systems...

[plum-cake]

lizuan76:

Plum cake,


Any P1 math assesment books that cover the question you are posting?

My girl told me she is learning that too.

you can see thoes Qs in P1 past exam papers, My pals are here text, test book/ homework books. most of the assesment books have a section called \"thinking maths\" which contains these type of Qs. only one or two questions will be there after each and every topic. Ex. Fan math topic by topic.. end of addition and substraction.

Thank you.

[janet88]

Hi plum-cake,

Met daughter’s teacher yesterday when we went to pick her.
Her FT very concerned about number bonds which my daughter seems to be weak in. I feel rather stretched at both ends now - P1 and P5.

[plum-cake]

Tinkerbelle:

Hi plum cake,

Thanks so much for sharing the link. :lol:

How did your DD go with her first CA1 maths paper? Hope she did well. DD2 lost marks for her last problem sum. It requires 4 steps to solve the question and she missed out on the last step because she forgot to add one part of her model.....so careless.

Hi Tinkerbelle,

Thank you for asking me. Thats really better than mine. she lost 9 marks out of 50. Last part she did well only missing one of the number sentence. and lost 1 1/2 marks :roll: But in part A and B lots of careless mistakes. Its looks like she was in the dream land. In the working area she did correctly and put the wrong number(MCQ) in the ans. another mistake is writing in wrods. Ex. given numb is 204 she wrote Two hundred and four four. :x

I cant help her with these, we practiced more on word problems this time. so she did well in that part.

[plum-cake]

janet_lee88:

Hi plum-cake,

Met daughter's teacher yesterday when we went to pick her.
Her FT very concerned about number bonds which my daughter seems to be weak in. I feel rather stretched at both ends now - P1 and P5.

Hi Janet,

Pay more attention to your p5.
For your p1, she needs more practice on addition and subtraction.
because number bonds are the relationship between the whole number and the parts which makes that whole number.
Ex. take 10 as a whole number the parts which makes that whole number are (2,8) (4,6) (3,7) (5,5) (0,10) etc etc.

to practice these you can write Qs
10 = 8 + ___

there are number bond word problems. ex in Fan- math process skills i-Excel level one,page 2 first 3 questions.

you can see more explenation in this
http://letsplaymath.net/2007/01/13/number-bonds-better-understanding/

lots of practice Qs
http://numberbonds.org/

Don worry she will pickup soon.

[plum-cake]

Hi Janet,


Moon + Moon = 10
Star + Moon =15

Star = _____

this question is actually under the topic number bond :oops:

but our grown up minds always go for the short cuts and temp to divide it. Rather than going for number bonds.

[lizuan76]

Plum cake, thanks.

[janet88]

plum-cake:

janet_lee88:

Hi plum-cake,

Met daughter's teacher yesterday when we went to pick her.
Her FT very concerned about number bonds which my daughter seems to be weak in. I feel rather stretched at both ends now - P1 and P5.

Hi Janet,

Pay more attention to your p5.
For your p1, she needs more practice on addition and subtraction.
because number bonds are the relationship between the whole number and the parts which makes that whole number.
Ex. take 10 as a whole number the parts which makes that whole number are (2,8) (4,6) (3,7) (5,5) (0,10) etc etc.

to practice these you can write Qs
10 = 8 + ___

Thanks for your tips. Will revise with her.