Monthly Archives: March, 2015

Grade 5 group session

This is another group session that I conducted, with 2 grade 5 students. This photo shows both students discussing to work out one challenging question.

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Photographs of lessons

The top photograph is taken yesterday. This student from Australian International School had seen unprecedented improvement, from 1/16 to 8/16, after learning the ‘S+L’ method which I taught him for problem sums. Gone also was his phobia for problem sums. He is now able to auto-pilot without me assigning him questions. The botton photograph  is …

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Why is apple called apple, and not orange?

Recently, I have been observing how babies learn. Indeed, from the time they can sit up, I observe their prowling eyes, ever-ready to suck in any information presented in front of them, starting from ground zero. Compare this with modern day local students, where they can’t cope with say, Additional Maths. Drawing parallels with my …

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