Maximise your child's potential from past year papers

Does these points above describe your current situation? Your primary school children are under tremendous pressure by the education system in Singapore. And for parents, we want our kids to do well. But how?

Multiple worksheets and practices to make sure they are exposed to questions, long hours of CCA and tuition to ensure they have a holistic development and so on. 

And when the time where their Math exams are coming, they start doing practice papers. Paper after paper after paper.

As a parent, we start marking these completed papers despite our busy schedule and review the suggested solutions. The difficulty comes when your child gets the answer wrong. 

Did your child get it wrong because of a wrong step, a wrong heuristic, a wrong calculation, wrong comprehension of the question?

From my years of teaching, this is what I have observed from parents’ mindsets.

I know my child got it wrong and he/she did not follow the steps.

• Each child has their own thought process and getting the answer wrong could be due to the order of the steps.

I read the suggested steps and I know how the steps get to the answer.

• Parents tend to internalise the solution and then guide their child based on it. We should guide the child based on their thinking process and correct the thinking process rather than teaching the steps. 

I will teach him/her based on the steps in the solutions provided.

• The solution steps form 1 way of solving and there could be a chance that your child knows their own way. 

I make him/her redo the question sometime later to ensure he/she knows how to solve the question.

• Rote learning is no longer relevant and we want to impart skills like problem solving where your child can still solve similar questions with varying numbers or problem structure.

As a parent, we want you to focus on what is truly important for your child to grow. Let us handle the past year papers with your child through our Exam Paper Solutions