Monthly Archives: February, 2016

Effective learning and revision

In this new post, I will offer my views on how to help students master their academic work. More often than not, students who come to me exhibit weaknesses in their problem sums. This is akin to countless parents who post maths questions on various Facebook Groups. Now, this in my opinion is a very …

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If you fail to plan…(you are actually planning to fail!)

With the blink of an eye, it’s close to the end of Febuary 2016. For students taking PSLE this year, it seems like there is still half a year (26 weeks) to go before end Aug ( I usually target to end revision in this month), and revision can be done at one’s own pace. Unfortunately, …

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Pri 6 Maths problem

One of my tuition counterparts posted this question in a Facebook group, which I thought is a good example that solving via Models may not necessarily be as efficient as algebra or units method. ‘Peter had twice the number of toy bricks as Jane. Jane used all her bricks to build 5 identical trains. Peter …

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