Challenging Maths by Ammiel Wan - which grades?

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I am impressed with your analysis of the workbooks and thanks for your time in sharing them with us. May I know your background/personal blog/tutoring experience ?

You mentioned you specialise in Maths and Science. I would appreciate if you can give some suggestions about Upper Primary Science assessment books (there are too many in the market). Perhaps you can start a new thread on Science....thanks in advance!

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I am impressed with your analysis of the workbooks and thanks for your time in sharing them with us. May I know your background/personal blog/tutoring experience ?

You mentioned you specialise in Maths and Science. I would appreciate if you can give some suggestions about Upper Primary Science assessment books (there are too many in the market). Perhaps you can start a new thread on Science....thanks in advance!

Good day Mdm,

This is Zhou Shicai, Head Mentor of NickleBee Tutors. Thank you your reply. I do teach both Maths and Science but i prefer to focus on helping students with the challenging maths syllabus they face nowadays and build up their problem solving skills at the same time. I teach science only upon request by parents of my students.

Perhaps you would like to refer to my tutoring profile in the KiasuParents Forum Personals section for more information about myself and my teaching methodology?

http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13671

Thank you

Yours
Zhou Shicai
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[Joy1089]

Both methods are applicable but for branching method is easier to do and faster to get the answer. Model method is used to teach primary kids as they could not understand algebra at their age.

[janet88]

HI Everyone,

I printed out 2-3 schools Maths CA1 for P5 to let son practice his Section A. But didn’t realize most of the questions include chapters he hasn’t been taught yet.

Need your advice if Li Fanglan’s Primary 5 FAN-Math MathExpress Speed Maths Strategies Level 5 will be of help. Please advise. Thanks.

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NickleBee Tutors:

Good day Mdm,
This is Zhou Shicai, Head Mentor of NickleBee Tutors. Thank you your reply. I do teach both Maths and Science but i prefer to focus on helping students with the challenging maths syllabus they face nowadays and build up their problem solving skills at the same time. I teach science only upon request by parents of my students

Yours
Zhou Shicai
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Hi,
I have just browse through some of the things you have written, like your analysis of the different books in the market. Personally, I have a few of the books - Challenging Maths, OnSponge, A*Star (from InteractiveLearning, used in school).
My DS is P5 and enjoys Maths.....however, my problem now (a good one though) is he's claims that the assessment books I have bought previously are too easy. Now he doesn't even want to continue with his P5 OnSponge. While occasionally he would have difficulty on a question or two from Challenging Maths/A*Star, generally he seems to be coping well. Although I know he's pretty strong, I can't exactly gauge too :?

Right now, I do not see the need to drill him with unnecessary assessments, but yet I dun want him to become complacent. Hope to hear your advice/recommendation on books that I can get that can challenge him further. Should I get him P6 Onsponge? But there will be topics he has yet to learn.

Thanks.

[janet88]

cwc:

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I do teach both Maths and Science but i prefer to focus on helping students with the challenging maths syllabus they face nowadays and build up their problem solving skills at the same time. Yours
Zhou Shicai
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Personally, I have a few of the books - Challenging Maths, OnSponge, A*Star (from InteractiveLearning, used in school).
My DS is P5 and enjoys Maths.....however, my problem now (a good one though) is he's claims that the assessment books I have bought previously are too easy. Now he doesn't even want to continue with his P5 OnSponge. While occasionally he would have difficulty on a question or two from Challenging Maths/A*Star, generally he seems to be coping well. Although I know he's pretty strong, I can't exactly gauge too :?

Hope to hear your advice/recommendation on books that I can get that can challenge him further. Should I get him P6 Onsponge? But there will be topics he has yet to learn.
Thanks.

Hi cwc,
You have a lucky problem...my son finds Maths at P5 very tough. I have Challenging Maths (but kept it up as he finds it tough) and Onsponge (school teacher ordered for class). For Challenging Maths (Ammiel Wan), the questions inside are not from specific chapters like ratio for eg...so it's really hard to draw a comparison.

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janet_lee88:

Hi cwc,

You have a lucky problem...my son finds Maths at P5 very tough. I have Challenging Maths (but kept it up as he finds it tough) and Onsponge (school teacher ordered for class). For Challenging Maths (Ammiel Wan), the questions inside are not from specific chapters like ratio for eg...so it's really hard to draw a comparison.

Hi Janet,
thanks for the info....I feel very paisay after reading all the mommies sharing their knowledge. You must have spent a lot of time on your kids' work cos' each of you are so detailed and aware of the syllabus, questions, methods etc. I have been rather 'lazy' for the last 1+ years (partly due to family constraint hence my 'big' plan to study with my kids were shelved). So I'm still in a maze right now :oops: Time for me to buck up!!!

For my son, I do feel rather lucky that he's quite independent, otherwise I would have been rather stressed. But I do feel apologetic towards him, I didn't have enough time and energy to pay much attention to him and didn't really stretch him even tho he has the potential. Guess gotta start catching up cos' next year PSLE plus I believe my P4 DD will face trouble in Maths next year.....

So first must find something tough to challenge DS But seriously, every child is different, hard to be strong in every subject. Like my DS and DD are both not too good in English and Science......I believe a lot to do with being a late reader and not reading enough.

[janet88]

cwc:

janet_lee88:

Hi cwc,

You have a lucky problem...my son finds Maths at P5 very tough. I have Challenging Maths (but kept it up as he finds it tough) and Onsponge (school teacher ordered for class).

So first must find something tough to challenge DS But seriously, every child is different, hard to be strong in every subject. Like my DS and DD are both not too good in English and Science......I believe a lot to do with being a late reader and not reading enough.

My kids are not avid readers...now realizing and regretting.
Need to pump up my son's vocab as well as his compo.

However, I've kept up Ammiel Wan's Challenging Maths. Don't want to drill him too extensively this year. Plan to work on some questions in his Onsponge recommended by teacher, since it's so thick and not possible to finish every single question.

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janet_lee88:

However, I've kept up Ammiel Wan's Challenging Maths. Don't want to drill him too extensively this year. Plan to work on some questions in his Onsponge recommended by teacher, since it's so thick and not possible to finish every single question.

Think my son's school realised they didn't push enough last year as the cohort did rather badly in PSLE (from my point of view). Hence this year, I see them pushing a lot harder from P5.

I actually bought Challenging Maths last year thinking of letting my then P4 son try 8), fortunately was lazy. When the P5 booklist came, I just pass to him to use in school. A*Star (from LearningInteractive) was the other one which I think is pretty tough but my son enjoying it.

OnSponge, can you share which are the questions the teacher ask them to do? Right now, I just get my son to do all the odd number questions....in the event he cannot finish, the sister takes over next year But seems like my son does not want to continue with OnSponge as he finds it 'easy'....I'll have to go through his earlier work first before I know if he's really getting them right

Now, hoping to hear from NickleBee Tutors to see if they can recommend more challenging books for my son.

[janet88]

cwc:

janet_lee88:

Plan to work on some questions in his Onsponge recommended by teacher, since it's so thick and not possible to finish every single question.

I actually bought Challenging Maths last year thinking of letting my then P4 son try 8), fortunately was lazy. When the P5 booklist came, I just pass to him to use in school. A*Star (from LearningInteractive) was the other one which I think is pretty tough but my son enjoying it.

OnSponge, can you share which are the questions the teacher ask them to do? Right now, I just get my son to do all the odd number questions....in the event he cannot finish, the sister takes over next year

Don't have Onsponge with me now...so can't see which questions are done. Of late, the teacher has been giving several pages of Maths prob sums from My Pals Maths Homework Book.