Club 30's "Kill The Boredom Demon" Jive Pad, 76th Edition

• Fatum

  31 Mar 08, 10:06

  that's to show people that the forums are being monitored mah ....

• sbst275

  31 Mar 08, 10:08

  Originally posted by Fatum:

  that's to show people that the forums are being monitored mah ....

  
  but it's all the articles are like tat poor poly kid tat one

• elindra

  31 Mar 08, 10:08

  Morning folks

  Put it this way...I don't even think I can pass primary school math

• sbst275

  31 Mar 08, 10:10

  Originally posted by elindra:

  Morning folks

  Put it this way...I don't even think I can pass primary school math

  
  You mean today or back then?

• Rhonda

  31 Mar 08, 10:11

  Originally posted by elindra:

  Morning folks

  Put it this way...I don't even think I can pass primary school math

  Biangz... I never knew what the hell Maths was about!    From Day 1, when the teacher walked into class and scribbled numbers on the board, I was stuck wondering, "WHY are we learning all these weird things?"

  As it turned out, I always ranked first in class for Maths... from the bottom. 

• elindra

  31 Mar 08, 10:12

  Originally posted by sbst275:

  
  You mean today or back then?

  
  I couldn't even pass primary school math back then and you expect me to pass primary school math now?

  I got a F for my PSLE Math ok. But for Sec school I got B3  

• Fatum

  31 Mar 08, 10:12

  Originally posted by elindra:

  Morning folks

  Put it this way...I don't even think I can pass primary school math

  primary school math is a different ball game altogether ....

  there are a few killer questions designed to identify the few bright sparks and make everyone else cry ....

  I feel bad for the small kids these days ...

• the Bear

  31 Mar 08, 10:13

  Originally posted by elindra:

  Morning folks

  Put it this way...I don't even think I can pass primary school math

  
  there is a big part of primary school math which no one can do... the MOE is just grasping at straws attempting to find the next Carl Gauss or Leonhard Euler...

  and in their attempt, they are stressing out and driving to distraction a whole generation of school children and their kiasu kiasi parents as about 15% of their homework cannot be done...

• Fatum

  31 Mar 08, 10:14

  Originally posted by sbst275:

  
  but it's all the articles are like tat poor poly kid tat one

  wat poor poly kid ? .....

   

• sbst275

  31 Mar 08, 10:14

  Originally posted by elindra:

  
  I couldn't even pass primary school math back then and you expect me to pass primary school math now?

  I got a F for my PSLE Math ok. But for Sec school I got B3  

  
  pri sch maths is kinda diff tat one i can admit

• sbst275

  31 Mar 08, 10:15

  Originally posted by Fatum:

  wat poor poly kid ? .....

   

  
  tat one lor... abt eating $1 meal in skool tat one lor

• SevenEleven

  31 Mar 08, 10:15

  morning everybody.No sound no picture from LF. wonder how she's doing.

   

• elindra

  31 Mar 08, 10:16

  Originally posted by Fatum:

  primary school math is a different ball game altogether ....

  there are a few killer questions designed to identify the few bright sparks and make everyone else cry ....

  I feel bad for the small kids these days ...

  
  The problem with me was that I'm lazy and careless

  My teacher spoke to my mum before that she finds it amazing that I can get questions that no one else in the class gets right but the easy ones I get it wrong

  She said the problem with me is that because I think it's easy I skip so many steps and make a mistake somewhere along the line or I make a calculation error by being careless, whereas if it is difficult I slow down so I get it right.

  My uncle who tutored me said the same and I got a hard knock on my head everytime I skipped steps :( Once I got so many knocks I actually got a bump on my head

• Rhonda

  31 Mar 08, 10:17

  Originally posted by elindra:

  
  I couldn't even pass primary school math back then and you expect me to pass primary school math now?

  I got a F for my PSLE Math ok. But for Sec school I got B3  

  I think I scored 19/100 for my Sec 4 Prelim exams, which alarmed my maths teacher, who promptly called me in and told me I had to attend remedial lessons, and I remember going home bawling my eyes out because I'm one of those who just cannot, for the life of me, ever understand what the hell Maths is all about! 

   

• Fatum

  31 Mar 08, 10:17

  Originally posted by SevenEleven:

  morning everybody.No sound no picture from LF. wonder how she's doing.

   

  still stuck outside of Tibet I suppose ....

  but if she's actually inside .. no surprise ... all outside comms links are currently cut off ....

   

• fudgester

  31 Mar 08, 10:18

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  
  there is a big part of primary school math which no one can do... the MOE is just grasping at straws attempting to find the next Carl Gauss or Leonhard Euler...

  and in their attempt, they are stressing out and driving to distraction a whole generation of school children and their kiasu kiasi parents as about 15% of their homework cannot be done...

  Refer to the discussion in the past few pages.... I gave an example of the kind of nonsense that A Maths students have to do these days. Basket.... I learnt the Cartesian equations of circles only in JC2!

  In all honesty, our education system has gone down the drain ever since Tharman took the helm. I'm glad that I was in one of the last few batches before all this nonsense came into being.

  And I'm seriously, seriously glad that he'll no longer be the education minister.

• sbst275

  31 Mar 08, 10:18

  Originally posted by elindra:

  
  The problem with me was that I'm lazy and careless

  My teacher spoke to my mum before that she finds it amazing that I can get questions that no one else in the class gets right but the easy ones I get it wrong

  She said the problem with me is that because I think it's easy I skip so many steps and make a mistake somewhere along the line or I make a calculation error by being careless, whereas if it is difficult I slow down so I get it right.

  My uncle who tutored me said the same and I got as hard knock on my head everytime I skipped steps :( Once I got so many knocks I actually got a bump on my head

  skip steps can really cost your mark one de la unless, unless you are very confident it's right

• Rhonda

  31 Mar 08, 10:18

  Originally posted by sbst275:

  
  tat one lor... abt eating $1 meal in skool tat one lor

  Erm... which one??

• elindra

  31 Mar 08, 10:19

  Originally posted by Rhonda:

  I think I scored 19/100 for my Sec 4 Prelim exams, which alarmed my maths teacher, who promptly called me in and told me I had to attend remedial lessons, and I remember going home bawling my eyes out because I'm one of those who just cannot, for the life of me, ever understand what the hell Maths is all about! 

   

  
  Ok I'm not that bad >.<"

  The worst thing was that the F spoilt my otherwise beautiful PSLE report card which was nothing below A except for Math

  And I think it was a borderline fail and my other results were good that was why I still got into Express Stream.

• the Bear

  31 Mar 08, 10:19

  thing about math is that everyone can do it..

  i'm not kidding...

  i've never seen people spend so much time and energy trying to convince others that they cannot do the math..

   

• elindra

  31 Mar 08, 10:21

  Originally posted by sbst275:

  skip steps can really cost your mark one de la unless, unless you are very confident it's right

  Err when I was young I was over confident to the pt of almost being cocky :P

  I don't think any of you will like me very much back then. Haha

• sbst275

  31 Mar 08, 10:22

  Originally posted by Rhonda:

  Erm... which one??

  
  some time back liao... somemore it ends up in Club 30

  Think complaining abt being poor, eat $1 food while classmates eating Japanese food sort of tat

• Fatum

  31 Mar 08, 10:23

  Originally posted by fudgester:

  Refer to the discussion in the past few pages.... I gave an example of the kind of nonsense that A Maths students have to do these days. Basket.... I learnt the Cartesian equations of circles only in JC2!

  In all honesty, our education system has gone down the drain ever since Tharman took the helm. I'm glad that I was in one of the last few batches before all this nonsense came into being.

  And I'm seriously, seriously glad that he'll no longer be the education minister.

  oh but he's gone up in the world .... he's now finance minister ! ...

  me suspects he's being groomed for even bigger things .... if he moves onto defence next, then you know he's being groomed as a potential future PM ....

   

• the Bear

  31 Mar 08, 10:24

  Originally posted by fudgester:

  Refer to the discussion in the past few pages.... I gave an example of the kind of nonsense that A Maths students have to do these days. Basket.... I learnt the Cartesian equations of circles only in JC2!

  In all honesty, our education system has gone down the drain ever since Tharman took the helm. I'm glad that I was in one of the last few batches before all this nonsense came into being.

  And I'm seriously, seriously glad that he'll no longer be the education minister.

  
  ever see Pr.3 math where the closest analogy to a "problem" my neighbours asked me to help their son with.. was... engineering Dynamics

  i'm not kidding...

  and even that, i'm not very sure could solve it as there were many other constraints which will not be found in Dynamics..

  mind you.. this is Primary 3

• sbst275

  31 Mar 08, 10:25

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  
  ever see Pr.3 math where the closest analogy to a "problem" my neighbours asked me to help their son with.. was... engineering Dynamics

  i'm not kidding...

  and even that, i'm not very sure could solve it as there were many other constraints which will not be found in Dynamics..

  mind you.. this is Primary 3

  
  omg! *gets worried