Parents complaining about difficult PSLE maths paper
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No one is to be blame except Students and Parents themselves.
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The question:
Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
If a rat is able to lay 10 eggs everyday, how many eggs can it lay for 2 and a half days?
a) 10
b) 25
c) 40
d) 60
e) None -
b) 25Originally posted by renorenal:The question:
Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
If a rat is able to lay 10 eggs everyday, how many eggs can it lay for 2 and a half days?
a) 10
b) 25
c) 40
d) 60
e) None
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We need to make an assumation:Originally posted by renorenal:The question:
Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
If a rat is able to lay 10 eggs everyday, how many eggs can it lay for 2 and a half days?
a) 10
b) 25
c) 40
d) 60
e) None
support the rat lays eggs... then... -
tats wat dey said dey wan to implement..the "teach less learn more " technique...hoping students will learn more by themselves through reading, net etc. ........no use complaining if its already done
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all wrong, shld be 20. lay 10 eggs everyday doesnt mean 5 in half a day. logically, it shld be lay 10 eggs at a time so ans = 20Originally posted by renorenal:The question:
Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
If a rat is able to lay 10 eggs everyday, how many eggs can it lay for 2 and a half days?
a) 10
b) 25
c) 40
d) 60
e) None -
1992 PSLE paper really hard...New paper complain till put front news...
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Uhhh.... aren't rats mammals? Mammals don't lay eggs.... right?Originally posted by renorenal:The question:
Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
If a rat is able to lay 10 eggs everyday, how many eggs can it lay for 2 and a half days?
a) 10
b) 25
c) 40
d) 60
e) None -
Everything also difficult. Don't study lor. Make your life so hard for what? It is not about PSLE maths paper difficult, it is more about whether you notice the things around you or not.
For example, in the year 2000 PSLE maths paper, students complained about this question: 1 + 2 + 3 + ... +97 =?
And a lot of students will go this way: 1 + 2 + 3 + ... +97 =?
Actually, there's a pattern. When you add 1 to 10, it is 55. When 11 to 20, it is 155. When 21 to 30, it is 255, so on and so forth. If they ever notice this pattern, will they find this question hard?
Take out your calculators and play with the numbers. Don't complain anymore.
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PSLE can use calculators?
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To learn more about number patterns, not use them during PSLE.Originally posted by ditzy:PSLE can use calculators? -
another way is 1 + 97 = 2 +96 = 3+ 95 = ...Originally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:Everything also difficult. Don't study lor. Make your life so hard for what? It is not about PSLE maths paper difficult, it is more about whether you notice the things around you or not.
For example, in the year 2000 PSLE maths paper, students complained about this question: 1 + 2 + 3 + ... +97 =?
And a lot of students will go this way: 1 + 2 + 3 + ... +97 =?
Actually, there's a pattern. When you add 1 to 10, it is 55. When 11 to 20, it is 155. When 21 to 30, it is 255, so on and so forth. If they ever notice this pattern, will they find this question hard?
Take out your calculators and play with the numbers. Don't complain anymore.
as there's total of 48.5 sets, just multiply 48.5 by 98. as the 4 ans have diff last digit. the one with last digit 3 is the ans. the ans then is (c). i did it in secs then, lol. -
Another method. Cool. But don't understand. I am more of a simple minded person.Originally posted by skyfoo:another way is 1 + 97 = 2 +96 = 3+ 95 = ...
as there's total of 48.5 sets, just multiply 48.5 by 98. as the 4 ans have diff last digit. the one with last digit 3 is the ans. the ans then is (c). i did it in secs then, lol. -
it is best that paper is difficult. in that case, most of the students can get thir grade modulated.
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y they dun complain their kids stupid?
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STUPID ADULTS
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complain for wad? at the end of the day the good ones will still get their grade. due to the weird weird system of grading.
take a simple paper for wad. doesnt put ur knowledge to the challenge.. -
Knowledge is gained when you know how to apply it. Singaporeans are a bunch of stupid people because they can't apply what they have learnt.
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seems like the method Federick Gauss used then.Originally posted by skyfoo:another way is 1 + 97 = 2 +96 = 3+ 95 = ...
as there's total of 48.5 sets, just multiply 48.5 by 98. as the 4 ans have diff last digit. the one with last digit 3 is the ans. the ans then is (c). i did it in secs then, lol.
mind you .. Gauss is rightfully Prince of Mathematics. That method was enuff to stunt even his teacher then. Don't expect the kids today to figure that out.
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Parents nothing vetter to do...
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PSLE cannot use calculators...Originally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:Everything also difficult. Don't study lor. Make your life so hard for what? It is not about PSLE maths paper difficult, it is more about whether you notice the things around you or not.
For example, in the year 2000 PSLE maths paper, students complained about this question: 1 + 2 + 3 + ... +97 =?
And a lot of students will go this way: 1 + 2 + 3 + ... +97 =?
Actually, there's a pattern. When you add 1 to 10, it is 55. When 11 to 20, it is 155. When 21 to 30, it is 255, so on and so forth. If they ever notice this pattern, will they find this question hard?
Take out your calculators and play with the numbers. Don't complain anymore. -
You made the assumption lay 10 at a time. Since the question is plainly a logical game (if then else question .. doesn't have to make sense), we can equally argue the distribution is uniform.Originally posted by skyfoo:all wrong, shld be 20. lay 10 eggs everyday doesnt mean 5 in half a day. logically, it shld be lay 10 eggs at a time so ans = 20
This, then, is creative thinking - not fixed on an answer and argue the rest as wrong. -
but now got teach in jc and some sec schs though i learned in pri sch.Originally posted by Icemoon:seems like the method Federick Gauss used then.
mind you .. Gauss is rightfully Prince of Mathematics. That method was enuff to stunt even his teacher then. Don't expect the kids today to figure that out. -
The concept is simple enuff, I suppose it would be a nice sidetrack when teaching Arithmetic Series.Originally posted by skyfoo:but now got teach in jc and some sec schs though i learned in pri sch.
Good that you learn it young. -
bcos of him, now we got more advance maths to learn.Originally posted by Icemoon:seems like the method Federick Gauss used then.
mind you .. Gauss is rightfully Prince of Mathematics. That method was enuff to stunt even his teacher then. Don't expect the kids today to figure that out. 