frankchn:[quote]Can the school insist the student to take up at least one H3 ? Any JC or IP school is doing this at the moment ?
hot_chocolate:your questions seem very out-of-syllabus, are they from IP schools by any chance?Hi, just asking, how do I factorise the following sums:
a) a^3 + b^3
b) x^5 + x + 1
Thanks!
soda:Perhaps competition is so stiff that the school has headaches choosing among so many qualified candiadates.Agree with that. RI doesn't give out many confirmed offers. Last year, my son was in P6. While many boys received confirmed offers from HCI, only a handful secured confirmed offers from RI. Many has wait-list offer though. Guess the school will look at the PSLE score eventually. Those who excel in all subjects, perform well in CCA and do well in interview will have a confirmed offer through DSA. That's my observation.
Not worth all the trouble just to get a wait-list offer. If one is already that good, sure he'll get a good PSLE score and be able to pick any school he likes.
Perhaps the poster just wants to know the general method of solving such types of questions, and so did not specify the distance.
Have u tried doing step-by-step?
For example, after establishing that there are 9 dogs in the kernel, explicitly test his understanding of the phrase "6 leave". If he do not understand immediately, resort to using physical objects or drawing of simple diagrams (not models yet but perhaps 9 dogs’ faces and circle 6 of them). After he understand the physical meaning he can move on the procedural meaning of 9-6.
Then if he understand the first step can move to "4 come in".
However judging from what you said, i presume he can probably solve a 1 step problem sum. In that case teach him to see step-by-step by covering up the "4 come in" part.
Its important to him to be able to learn how to see step-by-step by following the english phrases in sequence.
Please comment whether this works for him.
