How is school lately?

Dear P6s of 2015... It is already the end of Week 4 of the New Term ? Are homework piling in ? Are you starting to feel stressed out and already start complaining about the amount of homework you are facing everyday ? Do you have complaints like I do not have any free time now! Why is there so much homework? Can't the teachers give us a break? 

 

If you have those , don't worry! I do that too and I suppose most people do that when it comes to the critical year- P6... The best is to list down your homework for the day on a paper, and tick it when it's done... You should do your homework systematically. If that certain piece of homework is very challenging , you many choose to do others before coming back to that difficult piece of work... With that, you had actually already completed others which is really good! :) 

 

Do not procrastinate in doing those homework...thinking that PSLE is still months away...   Revise the topics that you have learnt now and so it will be a breeze when you revise them later near the PSLE date... 

                                 ANTI -STRESSSSSSS 

Mathwaytogo

5.04pm

1-29-15

A new year-2015

It's been a while since I started blogging... Already 3 days into the new year ... Sorry for the late greetings! But wishing you a Happy New Year! I wish each and everyone of you good health and above-happiness for the year ahead of us . I hope this year would be a better and more pleasant one for everyone...


STAY CHEERFUL AND HAPPY!


This year is the PSLE year for the P6s... To you , it may seem as if it's only the start of the year and you will not need to start preparing ... As I had undergone the PSLE and went through that whole year, I feel that I should had start preparing since the start of school . I only felt the anxiety when PSLE was just two months away ... Like in July. In July, I started to panic, feeling very anxious. I have not studied the Math strategies, the compositions method , oral practices and many stuff... Since then, everyday , I studied strategically. Maybe like everyday one topic on each subject or component.  I gave myself rest time too . (Every 1h of studying , I will go out for a breather for like maybe 10-15mins ) It will not be as good to stuff so many things in your mind during that 2 months or so. Hence, my advice to all P6s this year - Please start revising regularly now. Especially the chapters and topics you have learnt in P4 and 5.


 Do not procrastinate and also if you can make timetables for yourself and include suitable rest times. Do not store everything in your brain just thinking that that will help you. Instead, these method will make you back-fire. You will instead miss out the points that you tried to memorise. Remember notes by using your background knowledge of that subject and not memorise it without actually knowing it.


OK?


Mathwaytogo
2.33pm
1/3/15

Strategies to solve a sum(2)

Use before and after concept

Compare the situation before and after the problem is solved. Sometimes the differences(or a specific difference can shed light on the cause and lead to a possible solution.

Use guess and check

Make an educated guess of the answer and check to see if it is correct. Use the knowledge gained from testing an incorrect guess to improve the next guess. It is important to avoid making wild guesses. Track the guesses made and look for patterns to improve the next guess.

Make suppositions

Study the data given and make suppositions(assumptions without proof) about some aspects of the problem to form the basis for further thinking. This reduces the number of possibilities and makes it easier to explore the problem further.

Restate the problem in another way

Read the problem carefully and restate it in the child's own words. This helps the child understand the problem and identify important factors of the problem.

Simplify the problem 

Make a difficult problem simpler. This can be done by changing complex numbers to simple numbers or by reducing the number of things in the problem. The solution he the simplified problem may help the child solve the original problem.

Solve part of the problem

Split a complex problem into smaller parts and solve the simpler part first