Thank You, MathIzzzFun. Now, I know my mistake. Should hv just left them as fraction.


I’ve got another one here:

Question:
At first Alvin had twice as many trading cards as Steven. After Alvin had given away 285 of his trading cards, Steven had twice as many trading cards as Alvin. How many trading cards did they have altogether at first?

My working:
At first let Alvin -> 4u, so Steven will be 2u (altogether 6u at first)
After -> Alvin-1u, Steven-2u, so 285=3u
1u=285/3=95
Total 6u=570 –>My answer.

But the answer given was 845.

Appreciate your help once again.

4 girls share 2 identical butter cakes equally.

5 boys share 4 identical butter cakes equally.
What is the difference between each boy's and each girl's share?

1) 1/5
2) 1/4
3) 3/10
4) 1/2

I keep getting 1.1/2

Thank You

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Sorry Moderator Will watch out the next time.


Thank you very much Math Izzz Fun Now I get the picture

Hi, saw this worked example in My Pals are Here.


Do not understand why the ''crooked'' path is being calculated as a straight path. Isn't a crooked one longer than a straigth one?

Will appreciate if someone can help to explain to me. Thank You

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It seems like there are people who strongly promotes RV, even using the prospects of making tons of $$ to "lure" ??


Sorry, I’m a parent and i’m seriously worried if this is the trend of Sgp’s education system.

Before anyone says that "you do not have to choose RV if you’re not happy with its system" , for the record, my boy will most probably not be qualified for RV.

I happened to be on this RV thread simply coz of the article that i read supposely from a RV student and it disturbed me. What I begin to read here from supposely parents’ comments and ‘advertisements’ here makes me seriously worry.

I’m no saint myself. But I’d like parents to really ponder about the true values that we want to inculcate our next generation. PEACE.

quote queensotong [I hope that the school can put in a little extra effort in moral education. RVHS is a SAP school after all.]


Yes, I totally agree. Our schools should put in more effort in moral ed. But it doesn’t matter if it is a SAP school or not.

Although it’s good that students do not follow blindly. But to me, this is out right abrasive. And having independent thinking does not have to be rude and irrespectful.

Yes, I hope RV can seriously look into this.

with all without ipads, that is beyond the point. Well, at least, to me. The point is, students who probably think that they are so much more educated and tech savvy than their parents that they have totally forgotten who are the ones who, in the first place, gave them all these, or feed them, should I say?


We, as parents, have to seriously think of what has gone wrong. Is this the next generation that we want to raise? It is really so sad that our kids are calling us ''stupid''

I came across an article by a RV student in the site newnation.sg. quote the writer - a 16 year old RV student -

\"parents are, generally, a stupid bunch..\"

What have our young ones become? And why is this article even being published? Following is the link and the article:-

http://www.facebook.com/#!/newnationsg/posts/186734701427244
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Dear New Nation editor,

as a River Valley High School student, I am embarrassed to find out that a shouting match erupted between a parent and the school authorities — over the use of the iPad in class.

You know one of those face-palm moments where your parents treated you like a baby even though you’re a 16-year-old adult? Yep, that was one of those moments.

Parents are, generally, a stupid bunch. They are clueless about technology.
I wasn’t there at the teacher-parent meeting, but I saw Bryna Sim’s article about the whole incident.

The ludicrous comments from some parents just confirmed my prejudices.

One questioned whether introducing the iPad would really improve learning.

Hell yeah. Give me a textbook with videos and step-by-step animation anytime. These nice touches make difficult concepts easier to understand. Plus there’s always the Internet.

The awesome iPad is also much lighter. Primary School kids would benefit the most. I really pity my little sister: The bag she carries looks bigger than my elder brother’s army fieldpack. Imagine carrying that to school everyday.

Another commented: ”The school is already doing so well without iPads. There is really no need to introduce it.”

That person needs a knock on the head.

Technology is the future. The faster we get familiarized with technology, the better prepared we are for the Information economy (I learnt that in social studies).

But this comment takes the cake: “Another fear the parents have is that their children will get addicted to games and other sites on their iPads.”

I can’t help but LOL at that. I wonder why the the reporter is hesitant to name what these “other sites” are.

Well, let me spit it out: Porn. Of all varieties: Lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, straight, oral, anal, BDSM. My parents will flip if they know I’m typing this. But you know how I know? Because the boys in my school watch porn on their iPhones all the time. In the classrooms.

I guess parents can be forgiven for being the way they are. They are products of a bygone era — fearful of the new and fantastic. In time, they and their ilk will be discarded like trash — forgotten and ignored.

But you know who is the most ignorant of the lot? Bryna Sim, the reporter of the said article. And I thought reporters are supposed to be smart.

First, she is concerned that teachers must spend time familiarizing with the device and the apps that come along with it. And she is concerned that teachers would need to devote months to convert textbooks to the digital format.

Sorry to break the news to you, Ms Sim, but even a secondary four student like me understands that teachers are not required to convert textbooks for the incredible iPad — leave that to the professionals. Furthermore, textbook publishers are increasingly selling textbooks in digital format.

So stop pretending like you’re concerned about the teacher’s need to do “regular marking, teaching, setting of papers” and start doing more research on your article.

Second, Bryna is concerned that using the awesome iPad will “breed greater selfishness and alienate teachers from students.”

As I recall, people have been saying the same thing about the telephone and the Internet. And where are the fear mongers today?

I think the opposite is happening with the iPad. It draws people together in a loving embrace. Students and teachers can talk about school work, discuss lessons, and ask questions, all on the iPad. It breaks the ice, as students are often afraid to speak out in class.

It’s simply a great way of building relationships.

I have a friend (from another secondary school) who chats regularly with a male Chemistry teacher. She frequently talks about her schoolwork and even her personal problems. They talk about anything and everything, like friends. They’ve even gone out.

Online interaction, after all, often results in great offline interaction, don’t you think?

So, Bryna misses the good ol’ days of “flipping through heavy textbooks scarred with pen marks of varied colors together”. Well, she can shove them up her ass.

She ends off her article as such: “Can we master technology and control its influence, instead of letting it master our decisions?”

How trite. Even I can write better stuff than that!

As for me, my parents will definitely be getting me the incredible, amazing iPad. Convincing them was easy. I told them that the school has an offer for female students to purchase a year’s supply of a new brand of sanitary pads.

If that fails, my backup plan would simply be to do a little arm-twisting. With Facebook and Twitter, nothing is really private these days. And they have plenty of skeletons in the closet.

Best regards,

Apple Slut

One thing i can take consolation even with ds results slipping for p5, is his change of attitude. He seemed to be more concerned about his exams (at least one month before). This is important to me coz it means it's easier to prepare him for the next exam SA2. Main task now is to identify his weak points by going thru his papers (very hard work indeed for me ). I'm confident with his new attitude, we should be able to do better going forward (now, pray hard his attitude doesn't change back )

ha ha ha, cheers cwc, glad i'm not alone and i don't like to show him that the questions are killing me otherwise he'll say \"see, even my mummy cannot do/don't like to do\" this is not good for him at all. I really pity him sometimes but yet cannot show it sigh.