A carefully crafted and masterfully designed course for all students existing or new. This June holiday, PSLEMath has designed an all new course aimed towards all students. Existing students: Build on their strengths and work on weaknesses. New students: Learn new heuristic problem solving techniques and gain exposure to the most commonly tested concepts. Lesson […]
Teaching preschoolers problem solving skills? Consider the following. When we think of a problem sum, the first thing that comes to your head is probably a long story and an even longer string of equations to solve the question posed to you. However, when it comes to teaching heuristic problem solving to pre-school students, the […]
The importance of starting young with maths This is the second instalment of a 4 part series discussing the importance of visuals when it comes to learning mathematics. (Click here to read the previous part) As previously discussed, visuals play a significant role in learning mathematics regardless of age or level. By starting young […]
You are standing in a zoo. There are five zoo keeper. Each zoo keeper look after five big cages and each cage contains five huge tigers. Each huge tiger has five small tigers. We all know a tiger has 4 legs. So how many legs are there in the zoo ? ——————————————– Answer: 3012 Explanation: […]
This is a 4 part series discussing the importance of visual mathematics and why it’s needed to teach maths concepts to children. When it comes to mathematics regardless of level, there seems to be a common belief that visuals are for low level work and struggling students. This is backed up by a statement made […]
John took 6 minutes to saw a plank of wood into 4 pieces. How long would he need to saw a plank of wood into 10 pieces? —————————- How to solve interval problem sums involving number of cuts? Interval concept is a commonly tested heuristic problem sums. It is first introduced at Primary 2. This […]
Yenni had $180 more than Peter at first. After Yenni spent $250, Peter had six times as much money as Yenni. Find the amount of money Yenni had at first. —————————- In this week’s and next week’s QOTW, we will be covering two types of commonly tested Primary 4 problem sums relating to the topic […]
If it takes 5 minutes for 5 machines to make 5 t-shirts, how long would it take 100 machines to make 100 t-shirts? ——————————————– Solution: 5 minutes Each machine takes 5 minutes to make its t-shirt. Therefore, each of the 100 machines would have finished making its t-shirts in 5 minutes. #GroupingConcept #patterns #suppositionconcept #area […]
Peter has some cards. He gives 1⁄3 of it and 4 more to John. He then gives 1⁄2 of the remainder and 8 more to Anna. He is left with 26 cards. How many cards does John have? ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– This week we would like to share the parallels between the branching method and model method. […]
3 INTENSIVE DAYS – 15 MUST-KNOW CONCEPTS – 50 QUESTIONS This March holiday, PSLEMath has designed a short course for all students focusing on at least 50 core heuristic concepts commonly tested in SA1. This holiday programme aims to be a strong reinforcement of what current students have already learnt and to provide a clear […]
