Thanks so much.

tianzhu:

rsorchid:

Pls help, Thanks.

A florist had some roses, tulips and carnations. After selling some of them, there were 6 tulips for every 5 roses and 7 roses for every 3 carnations. After selling 168 roses, she had 456 tulips and carnations left. The number of tulips sold was the same as the number of carnations sold.
a) How many roses had she at first?
b) If the number of tulips was twice the number of carnations at first, what is the total number of tulips and carnations sold?

Hi

A neat way is to use MD.

T:R ------ 6:5 -------42:35

R:C ------ 7:3 -------- 35:15

Since the share for roses is repeated, make it the same for both set of ratios

15 + 42 ------ 57

57 units -------- 456

1 unit ------- 8

(a)Number of roses left ------- 35*8 -------- 280

Number of roses@first -------- 280+168 -------- 448

(b) Draw 1 box to show number of tulips/carnation sold.

Number of tulips left ------- 42*8 -------- 336

Number of carnations left -------- 120

1 box + 336 ------- 1 box + 120 = 1 box + 120

1 box ------- 96

The total number of tulips and carnations sold ------- 96*2 ------- 192

Best wishes

Pls help, Thanks.


A florist had some roses, tulips and carnations. After selling some of them, there were 6 tulips for every 5 roses and 7 roses for every 3 carnations. After selling 168 roses, she had 456 tulips and carnations left. The number of tulips sold was the same as the number of carnations sold.
a) How many roses had she at first?
b) If the number of tulips was twice the number of carnations at first, what is the total number of tulips and carnations sold?

AnotherKiasu:

smartmummy:

Hi AnotherKiasu!

May I know how did u teach ur son tamil. My son's problem is he hates Tamil. Still he didn't talk in tamil with us but he can.he doesn't want to read aloud. In the dec holiday my DH read for him, then he repeat the story in English.I talked to him many times but not working. Now in p4 need to write compo.
Last few weeks very busy didn't teach properly. I follow the tamiloli book and write down the words for oliverupadu and asked him.tense also I did like that. Chorporul,haven't yet start. Today my son brought a list from school for book fair, I noticed that a book for oliverupadu, chorporul. Is it useful? May I know what books and story books are useful for p4?thanks

First thing is, eventhough your son may not like Tamil (I hate to use the word \"Hate\"), for examination purposes, he MUST master it. Remember, in PSLE, MT carries equal weightage like other subjects. There are many cases in my DS school, the children very good in Eng, Mat and Sci got poor PSLE scoring because the MT score pulled them down (like A* for all and B for MT). This not only applies for Tamil, but for other MTL also. In PSLE, the compo is supposed to be in high standard to score good marks. The sentences must be creative and normal usage of words, will not help.
So, your DS must realise this point.

Slowly (but painfully), you need to cultivate the habit of speaking in Tamil.

Below pointers may help you. All these worked for my sons.

1. During dinner, take some interesting topic from newspaper (For eg. a fire at neighbourhood, man drowned in bedok reservoir etc) and start to discuss in Tamil. The children may say in English, no problem, then you ask them to translate in Tamil. You can see, they'll struggle for correct words. Then you chip in... say the correct work and also how it can be improved, polished. Since it's a fun way, they'll learn it easily.

2. Prepare a list of Tamil words from their Tamil book and/or any equivalent tamil books. Write meaning in TAMIL and English. (For example Thee - Neruppu, Anal - Fire). Ask them to memorise and write 5-10 words every day. Most schools will give list of Tamil words necessary to learn at P4/P5/P6 level. You can use such list also.

3. For compo, prepare sentences for them to use. For example, how to describe early morning poetically. Most schools will give this list of useful Tamil sentences to use in Compo. Ask them to memorise and rewrite a few times so that they don't forget. Revisit this every 3 months. Also, how these sentences can be used in Compo also need to be drilled. For example, in every compo, atleast at one place, the children need to describe morning/afternoon/evening/night. So atleast 2 sentences must remember for each of the timings. The same goes for feelings - sad, very sad, happy, very happy, laugh, tear, fight, play etc.

4. You can get past year/current year question papers for various schools. You can try at Raj publications at Dalhousie lane, adjacent to Tekka mall (The Verge) in Little India. They also sell Tamil books. I found this resource as useful.

5. Buy \"Tamil Murasu\" every monday. They publish sample Q papers from P1 to P6 in \"Maanavar Murasu\". Also the articles and stories are quite helpful.

6. Borrow simple story books (like Thenaliraman Kathaigal, Birbaul Kathaigal) from Library and ask them to read.

7. Maintain an exercise note separately (Sol Valam) and cultivate a habit of writing any new Tamil word they learn with equivalent Tamil and English meaning. Eventually this note will grow bigger and serve as a good resource. You don't write for them; ask them to write in their own handwriting.

8. Watch Vasantham Central Tamil news at 8:30 regularly with your child. The news readers tamil is just fantastic. You can watch some good Tamil program/movies also with them to improve their spoken Tamil.

Hope this helps.

Thanks parent AnotherKiasu, for all the tips

Hi fellow-Year 1 parents,

So this is what they all meant, when they said that Secondary school is ‘different’ from Primary school !!!
Ya, we are overwhelmed by this experience.
Firstly, so many subjects…teaching methods are new!
My DS has grown up a lot in this 1 month… Responsible. Independent. Decision making ++
Feels good :-)javascript:emoticon(‘:celebrate:’)

Not thinking about the upcoming tests, whats gonna be his CCA, javascript:emoticon(‘:?’)

verykiasu2010:

rsorchid:

[quote=\"verykiasu2010\"]
Quite a number of them got acceptance replies from RI liao, attended briefing already too

[/quote]Hi,
we got a call from RI this evening, appeal accepted, registering at RI tomorrow

Thankyou parents and students, being part of this forum was fun and informative.

One race is over...
The next one starting...

Best Wishes to all of you boys & girls, a whole new life & learning is awaiting you !

verykiasu2010:

BryBenMum:

Has anyone received acceptance/rejection letter from RI for their appeal? For students DSAed into another school and t-score is above their COP. Hope someone that have prior experience in this can share with us. Thanks!

Quite a number of them got acceptance replies from RI liao, attended briefing already too

Hi, my DS has gotten a PSLE score of 266. Appealed to RI and waiting for results.
Got another school thro' DSA. Had applied under Maths for DSA at RI, but unsuccessful
I called RI today to check on the status. They say that appeal results will be out only after 23rd, upto 29th Dec.
:?

singalion:

SCGS sent emails yesterday at around 5pm. My DD got CO under choir. :celebrate:

Hi singalion,
:congrats: to you and your DD.
May she find lots of joy with her singing !!!

laifeeling:

During the audition, my DD was asked to perform different types of dance genres. She was also asked to do different types of stretching to test her flexibility. Understand that SCGS teaches all types of dance like jazz, ballet and chinese dance.

Hi Laifeeling,
:congrats: to you and your DD !
You must be very proud of her! This DSA offer is a crown to her achievements in Dance !!! Good Luck.

- rsorchid

harini:

Congrats !!! Welcome to ACS(I) :rahrah: :rahrah:

Thanks harini

ruohoo97:

rsorchid:

[quote=\"mamatay\"]Has anyone received calls from ACS on the DSA result cos their web states the call shold be from 3rd week July to 3rd week Aug.


Has anyone get the call yet?

Wait has ended!
Got a call from ACS(I) that my DS has been 'shortlisted' and to meet the Principal at 9am on Saturday
No email or postal mail, yet.

:celebrate:
My DS didn't receive call. :oops: Is that for IB or for O level too?[/quote]DS had applied for the IP. Got the 'shortlisted' call and on Saturday when we went to ACS(I) for the Principal talk, my DS received the CO

On saturday, 90 received CO and others (dont know the number) received WL for IP. 54 received CO for O level thru sports, and they can get IP based on their PSLE results.

Why dont you call them to chk about the O level DSA results? Best of Luck to ur DS.