Thank you so much for your kind advice. Yes, went to popular and got the shinglee book.
Quick question; if a child is in a GEP, he/she is expected to have some maths olympiad knowledge? Reason is, honestly speaking, it never occured to me that there is such thing in primary level. I have read in the papers before and I always thought it was for the secondary or tertiary levels. Yes, I’ve been at home for too long. I’ve been ignorant. For the past three years, I’ve always thought P1 to P3 maths syllabus are as the My Pals Are Here, and as long as he does some assessment books and past years’ top school exam papers, the child is fine. And yes, he scored above 90 each time then. Haha! Until now. I found out most of my child’s classmates are of so high calibre in their maths knowledge. They do Maths Olympiad! Of course! That’s why they are in the GEP! But my child is a ‘normal’ child when it comes to maths, maybe it was because I have never exposed him to olympiad questions before? I don’t know…
My neighbour was so nice to pass me a copy of a Maths Olympiad Intermediate book by Terry Chew. I went thru some of the questions, and I saw stars. Kudos to all you children and parents who have the gift for maths. I’ll be the first to say I’m hopeless and clueless for maths.
Sorry for my ramblings and thank you so much again. And yes, will start getting my child to ATTEMPT (notice the word is not DO!) ALL THE OLYMPIAD QUESTIONS (if she can get pass thru the 3rd question)!!!
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RE: All About GEP
Hello, I’m new to this forum. I’m so happy happy to find this "place". My DS is in P4 GEP. He was from a neighbourhood school and was doing pretty well there. Unfortunately I can’t say the same now. He’s having some difficulties in maths. Can I have some advice on what assessment books or what should I do to help him improve? I can’t find any Maths GEP related assessement books at the bookshop. Currently he is not attending any tuition. At the moment his workload is so heavy I doubt there is time for that. Please please help. Thank you so much.