It’s fun to play true/false games to: 1. test understanding 2. help with absorption and memory recall. True/false questions are quick and engaging – any misunderstandings can also be quickly corrected on the spot. Here I’ve used red cards for false and green cards for true.
You can use circles cut into segments to help understand fractions. Here I’ve also used a dodecagon (12-sided polygon). I cut them into two (halves), four (quarters), eight (eights) and so on, and used them to demonstrate addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of fractions for the last session.
Last Saturday, I was having a “composition marathon” with the upper primary students to prepare them for their upcoming CA. One of the themes was to write an essay about how you plan for a party for your sister who has returned from overseas. Some students used “shocked” to describe how the protagonist felt when[…]
Kudos to our brave young reporters. They approached strangers at the national library today to interview them for their stories. Some adults don’t even have the courage to do this. Well done!
Remember the teacher is marking zillions of papers for the examinations. He/she may not be able to read in detail what you have written; in fact, he/she may need to look through quickly before giving you a grade.So, impression counts. 1. Make sure there are no glaring grammar mistakes. When the teacher doesn’t have time[…]
2013 Wallace and Wei started a project in 2013. We thought we could help students in our spare time and were helping students with questions on our Facebook page. It was especially exciting during the PSLE examination period when we get hordes of questions and it was gratifying to be able to help as many students[…]
Looking to impress your relatives this Chinese New Year? Here are a couple of Maths tricks that you can showcase in front of your cousins! Trick 1: 1. Get them to think of a 3-digit number. 2. Multiply it by 7, 11 and 13 and hey presto, you get twice that number. For example: 1.[…]
There’s a Chinese tradition which requires us to clear all our debt before the Lunar New Year. How do you pronounce “debt”? a) deBt (pronouncing the B) b) Det (silent B) ___ (B) Det is the answer!The word was usually spelt “det” or “dette” in Middle English from the Old French “dette”. Originally it came[…]
How do we know if a number is divisible by 7 without a calculator? Easy. Follow these steps: 1. Take the last digit of the number you’re testing and double it. 2. Subtract this number from the rest of the digits in the original number. -If this new number is either 0 or if it’s[…]
It’s Chinese New Year in less than a week’s time. It’s the Year of the Horse and your annoying relatives will definitely ask you to spew some horse-related greetings before they give you that ang pow. Don’t worry. We are here to help! Memorise these and I guarantee that you will get a lot of[…]