Wk 05

1E1 are excited bunch on maths. They seem to have grasped the concept of approximation and significant figures quite well. Unfortunately, the star publishing does not seem to have much notes to support them in significant figures...so had to give them notes from the shing lee book, which found many of them relieved. Next stop will be percentages.

2E5 are getting a little restless these days, where i am compelled to bring to the front the nosier students. They enjoy factorizing quadratic expressions using the cross method, though some of them initially worked it out with the coefficients being negative. But have been advised otherwise since to avoid confusion later. After teaching them, i am experimenting with method of swamping them with practice questions which they do during class. Very happy to see many are getting excited about practice questions. The class is a little slow, but still steady.

1T2 are very enthusiastic...sometimes a little too carried away. Chapters on fractions being already covered in primary, some are already finding it comfortable. Some still have challenges. Having covered the concept of addition of negative and positive integers using the 'green' and 'red' tokens is proving to be very useful. Most can understand the concept very well. And using the analogies of simple integers, complex fraction questions are explained effectively.