Can you guess what these are for? I was teaching my P3/4 students fractions last Saturday and it was easier to illustrate how they work if the children can visualise the concepts. You can use materials found in your home for such experiments too! Every week I try to use different games and such tests[…]
Seeing is believing. Revising for SA2 with the P5s. How else to explain electricity than to try it ourselves?
There was a comic going around recently. The elephant, monkey, penguin and others were told to climb a tree and all had to perform the same task to ensure a fair selection. The cartoon took shots at the examination system- how each individual is geared differently and how it shouldn’t test everyone the same way.[…]
As we approach the year-end examinations, we get academic queries from parents on our wall and private messages. Thought it would be great to share the questions and solutions with everyone here. Science: Question: Wallace: I’ve seen this question before. It’s not a good one to be honest. There’s elastic spring force acting on the[…]
Last week, we wrote a note for students who are on the verge of failing the PSLE. Today, we focus on helping students who are eyeing the A*. Note that PSLE is based on a bell curve, i.e. your grades are based on how your peers perform. It doesn’t mean that you automatically get an[…]
Primary school science requires a fair amount of knowledge of content. To do well, one must also be able to memorise and recall the important concepts. Here are some tips to help: 1. Write notes when you study. The act of writing already helps you to remember what you wrote. 2. Notes have to be[…]
I am a typical humanities student. I never had the flair for Maths and Science. If I did well for my Sciences, it was sheer hard work. In the good old days, we started learning Science only when we were in Primary 4. I remember my first CA well. I was very used to getting[…]
Questions like these come up quite often in the exams. The answer for question 1 is (4) and the answer for question 2 is 800cm3. A parent asked me if I spotted the contradiction between the two questions. If, in the second question, the volume of air regardless of how much air has been pumped[…]
I did this with my class a few weeks ago, to demonstrate that air takes up space. 1. Roll a small ball of tissue paper and stuff it about 1cm from the end of a straw. 2. Cover the other end of the straw with your finger. 3. Ask if the paper will get wet[…]
While going through some questions for my students, I find some questions are not very well set. Take this for example. Ans a) is he wants to show that a plant takes up water through its roots. But b) isn’t a good question at all. The model answer is C, by the way. First, kids are[…]