Q&A - P1 Math

[phtthp]

hellokittyspore:

For my dd, I start her off by understanding the concept using toy -> http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/549892239/Plastic_Math_Stacking_Cubes_QL_015.html.

This is how her preschool teaches maths as well.

Don't mind if u can share how you use the colorful cubes to teach a child addition ? Tq v much, for kind sharing.

[hellokittyspore]

phtthp:

hellokittyspore:

For my dd, I start her off by understanding the concept using toy -> http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/549892239/Plastic_Math_Stacking_Cubes_QL_015.html.

This is how her preschool teaches maths as well.

Don't mind if u can share how you use the colorful cubes to teach a child addition ? Tq v much, for kind sharing.

For number bonds, I will prepare two big card boards and provide my dd with the number cubes e.g. 5. I will request her to find the different ways to allocate the 5 cubes to the two given card boards.
For addition and subtraction, I will give her the cubes in two different colours for the initial number and the other number to be added/to be taken away.
I find it useful when I started my dd with ordering of numbers beyond tens. When I first introduced her to number beyond 10s, her understanding of the concept of tens and ones is very not good. I uses the cubes to show her the meaning of ones, tens, twenties etc so that she has visual view of the numbers. With the visual views, she can perform ordering in ascending or descending orders better.
For multiplication, I just need to increase the number of card board to allocate the cubes. In short, I'm letting my dd understand by visualise the concept. Hopes that I have answer to your query.

[snowball32]

Hi,


My DD subscribe to Maths +venture and I find that their explanation and teaching methods using number bonds and breaking up numbers helped my DD understand the concepts.

It is a good supplement to the school textbook.

My DD faced some problems with interpreting and understanding the questions in her school Maths worksheet. After reinforcing the teaching methods, she can now grasp and do her Maths worksheets with little help from me.

[hellokittyspore]

starz:

Hi

I need some help here. My child is rather weak in maths. Right now for p1 they are doing add by making 10s and using ones to add. However between these 2 methods, she is very confuse and don't understand n keep doing wrong despite I taught her many times? Any advice to help my child? Thanks

Try to ensure that your child's number bond below 10 foundation is strong. Once she understand number bond. Above is easy.

[sembgal]

You can buy good quality unifix cubes from Amazon. Unifix cubes are good concrete materials for children to manipulate. There is so much you can do with unifix cubes, from practising fine motor skill to counting, adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing, patterning and measuring.

[Mama_ambitious]

Hello all!


This thread is so good! Can I ask, which are good books for more challenging math problems.

My son is almost done with fan math and step by step Maths.

I was looking at Andrew Er at popular. Any other authors that are good? Pls do advise. Looking forward to hearing from you all helpful souls.

[Sweetbaby456]

Hi Mama,

Fan Math and step by step Maths are the best for lower primary Maths in the market.
If your son can do both these - all the other authors/books should be chicken feet for him.

[Mama_ambitious]

To be honest, he has been exposed to these books n learning from them but not really mastered the concepts. In fact, he may have got only 50 percent.


I do need him to practice more. Maybe I correct myself that I need more practice and not really challenging practice.

Haha! Perhaps will just pick a book to built on what he has learned. Although there are some topics we are yet to cover.

[Sweetbaby456]

Mama, isn’t your son in K2?

Wow that’s very impressive that your K2 boy can do P.1,Maths books whether challenging or normal level…he is like 1year advanced…so impressive!!

[Mama_ambitious]

I’m humbled sweet baby! Yes, I try to stretch him a bit! After boys need to be pushed. But yes, he is still learning concepts of p1 like starting multiplication soon, I was lucky to find a centre who can accommodate to his needs as he is not a fit in k2 either. So altho not fully at par with p1 the teacher gives him special attention to fill in his gaps.


But let’s see what happens in future, too early to comment. Besides, one good soul at this forum was the one who advised me to try p1 math if possible if kid is a bit comfy with simple stuff and see how it goes…!!!

Love u all here!