P2 Math - General Discussion

[plum-cake]

janet_lee88:

HI Plum-cake,

Guess what, I finally learnt how to answer the question on calculating number of 2 and 4 legged birds/animals last night :oops: while hubby taught daughter last night. The Math assessment book used is Li Fanglan's heuristic and model approach.

what about your daughter, is she enjoying these heuristic type Qs? well, my one started to like these Questions. for the \"sticks\" questions we used the tooth picks :lol: I got that book this yr for my daughter to teach models. so I skipped thoes Qs and started with models. And during this holidays we managed to finish all the skipped ones. only the triangle , square, circle question, I was trying to find the values and got stuck. some of them we got to think. there is an art of teaching these type of questions but I dont have such talent..

[janet88]

Hi plum-cake,

She enjoyed doing those questions as it’s out-of-the-box…but still have to reinforce number bonds. The chapter on ‘tooth picks’ not attempted yet.
Teacher hasn’t started teaching models at P1 yet, but there will be a Maths briefing in early April.
There are several authors for heuristic/model approach, but Li Fanglan and Andrew Er are still the ‘reliable’ ones for Maths.

[Callie Tan]

My girl’s school has just started models… and her holiday worksheets are on models. I went for the models drawing workshop last week…

[Callie Tan]

I bought CASCO IQ Mathematics for my girl in P1… very very tough… any other parent using this book too?

[plum-cake]

janet_lee88:

Hi plum-cake,

She enjoyed doing those questions as it's out-of-the-box...but still have to reinforce number bonds. The chapter on 'tooth picks' not attempted yet.
Teacher hasn't started teaching models at P1 yet, but there will be a Maths briefing in early April.
There are several authors for heuristic/model approach, but Li Fanglan and Andrew Er are still the 'reliable' ones for Maths.

yes I agree. I have \"Use of Heuristics in problem solving P2 by Andrew Er and Joanne Er\" too.

[janet88]

Callie Tan:

I bought CASCO IQ Mathematics for my girl in P1... very very tough... any other parent using this book too?

The other tough assessment book is Fabian Ng's Excel in Math.

[optimistforum]

I would recommend Challenging Mathematics (EPH) Sundar. These are very difficult questions. My 7 year old is a little behind, and has only just completed the P1 book. Hopefully, he can complete P2 by July.


We also use the P1 and P2 Maths Olympiad Training by Terry Chew. I think this book is fantastic.

[Funz]

janet_lee88:

HI Plum-cake,

Guess what, I finally learnt how to answer the question on calculating number of 2 and 4 legged birds/animals last night :oops: while hubby taught daughter last night. The Math assessment book used is Li Fanglan's heuristic and model approach.

Wow, your DD at the beginning of P1 is doing such sums? DD was given such a sum but it was towards the end of P1.

There is a method to solving this type of question and it involves multiplication and division which is not covered in the school syllabus so early in P1.

When I was first trying to teach DD to solve this type of sums, I had to use trial and error, literally drawing out the total number of legs then allocating the 4 legged and the 2 legged animals their legs. Haha.

[Callie Tan]

Funz:

janet_lee88:

HI Plum-cake,

Guess what, I finally learnt how to answer the question on calculating number of 2 and 4 legged birds/animals last night :oops: while hubby taught daughter last night. The Math assessment book used is Li Fanglan's heuristic and model approach.

Wow, your DD at the beginning of P1 is doing such sums? DD was given such a sum but it was towards the end of P1.

There is a method to solving this type of question and it involves multiplication and division which is not covered in the school syllabus so early in P1.

When I was first trying to teach DD to solve this type of sums, I had to use trial and error, literally drawing out the total number of legs then allocating the 4 legged and the 2 legged animals their legs. Haha.

I realized many P1 maths questions are trial and error ones...

[janet88]

optimistforum:

I would recommend Challenging Mathematics (EPH) Sundar. These are very difficult questions. My 7 year old is a little behind, and has only just completed the P1 book. Hopefully, he can complete P2 by July.


We also use the P1 and P2 Maths Olympiad Training by Terry Chew. I think this book is fantastic.

Challenging Maths by Sandhya Sundar is too tough...at this level or even higher levels, encouraging and motivating is the key. I didn't realize that and upset son's confidence. Now I try NOT to buy anything 'Challenging' unless school tells students to get.