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27th June
We were there from 4.00pm to 6.20pm, Sarah and Tuyan didnt go due to their mass bio lecture.

Taught An and JL today, since her ACJC tutor didnt come and she needed help.

JL wasnt willing to do at first, but once she saw that i was carrying the marker pens, she instantly started to take out the markers and start writing and doing willingly. But when she met with questions that she didnt know how to do, she went like "har. jiejie, how to do?"
the first few times i taught, she listened carefully and when i asked her to explain for me everything again, she could. However, the next few times, she just got sian-ed and went "eh, jiejie, tell me how to do leh." and then copy down what i say word for word, then prance off to go toilet or something. DD:

needa find a way to get her attention, and to prevent sian-ness!!

An was, to my not-so-surprise, was happy to see me, and of course that made me happy!!
:D
Things were going fine, his attitude was splendid, and he was still joking around with Farah's Ro.
He wanted to play abit, and i let him, after every question was done, so the atmosphere was rather relaxed. And because he was happy to get to play, he was also happy to listen to me. But then we met with the stupid question.

You have a number of apples. When put into boxes of 3, you have 5 more boxes than if you put the apples into boxes of 4. How many apples do you have?

i was O.O. how on earth do you show that in models?!
me: since they didnt state the smallest possible number of apples..
my stupid method:

If you have (3 x 4)(1) apples, you have 4 boxes of 3, 3 boxes of 4. you have 1 more box of 3 than 4.
If you have (3 x 4)(2) apples, you have 8 boxes of 3, 6 boxes of 4. you have 2 more boxes of 3 than 4.
If you have (3 x 4)(3) apples, you have 12 boxes of 3, 9 boxes of 4. you have 3 more boxes of 3 than 4.
If you have (3 x 4)(4) apples, you have 16 boxes of 3, 6 boxes of 12. you have 4 more boxes of 3 than 4.
If you have (3 x 4)(5) apples, you have 20 boxes of 3, 15 boxes of 4. you have 5 more boxes of 3 than 4.

Yeah, i know its pretty confusing. but I had to teach An to answer the question!!
and this was the simplest method i thought of.

Needless to say, he started getting frustrated and angry again, and me too. cause i explained the whole system and wrote it out for him at least 5 times, and spent 45 mins on this already.

so i consulted Farah!
She used algebra!

Let X be the number of boxes.
4X = 3X + 5
X = 5
Number of apples
4X = 60!

so i tried teaching this to An, and he still couldnt understand! (this one was kinda expected, cause he has no idea what algebra is, but worth a try :DD)

Then i looked at the other childrens' books. they all did corrections for the question, and they said Auntie Sharm taught them that. So i went off to find her, with An's book in hand. And she said that the question itself was rather baffling, and that none of the teachers could get it. so she told me to split the question into two and everything. then i mentioned to her Farah's method, to show that the question isn't wrong. It's just that i dont know how to teach An this.

Then she just told me to randomly fob off An, anything to get the answer first.
So i went back and told An alot of junk @.@.

Yeah, but that's been cleared up cause Mr Liu taught us how to show using the model method.
the 5 extra boxes were absorbed by the 4-each-boxes!

How many apples are in the 5 extra boxes?
5x3 = 15.
These 15 apples were "absorbed" by the boxes of 4. Each box can absorb 1.(cause 4-3=1)
The apples were absorbed fully. meaning there were 15boxes of 4.
How many apples were there?
15x4! = 60!

yeap :DD

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Ive realised that I've turned from a interesting tutor to a sian-ed one too. DD:
Last time, i was super energetic when i was with them, but i always ended up dead beat and super tired when i get home..

Recently, i seem to be cant-be-bothered anymore. and when i get home, i still have energy O.O
eg: when the kids couldnt concentrate last time, i would 撒娇 shamelessly until they laugh and are more willing to listen to me and do their work.
now, when they show disinterest, i just make half-hearted attempts to get their attention, like saying "An, pay attention pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease?". and if they dont pay attention, then i lose interest too, and give them this annoyed look; -_-. DD:

I think i was better when i just started out. DD:
Time for reflection on my part.

p/s. since the kids seem to love simon-says so much. im thinking of having mini-simon-says whenever they get bored. (like the fillers that mr liu mentioned)Part of the fun of simon says is when the laughing when someone does it wrong, so make sure you do it too!
Maybe we can pair up, 2 children, and 2 of us. or bigger, if possible. XD

The atmosphere and the centre has gotten seriously sian. time to liven it up! before we all die of boredom :DD

whenever youre bored, stand up and do stupid actions! :DD

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