30th July reflection
Well on the 30th July, I checked through J Maths work. I also had to go through some corrections with her. She was quite careless in terms of addition and subtraction. Her maths seemed to improve a lot.
She practically knew how to do almost all the the problem sums except for one which I think is quite difficult for her level. Upon completing her homework, the teacher in charge asked me to go through with her the muliplication table.
I tested her from 2 times table until 12 times table. I also set some questions on the spot and asked her to answer verbally. I feel that she is quite good at her multiplication and let her off to play her own games.
I went to tutor M , who needed help with fractions. I checked through his work before allowing him to submit it to his teacher. After which I played a board game with J. I ain't know what it is called but it is of a star-shaped though.
Labels: 7.30.08, jean
Jelly! wobbled @ Sunday, August 10, 2008
6th August reflection...
Hey... ...
On the 6th of August, I taught J maths. I told her that1 liter is equivalent to 1000ml. Once again, she is careless when it comes to questions such as 15litres 50ml- 4 litres800ml. She gets very confused when she sees both litres and milli-litres appearing. I told her to convert all the litres to milli-litres .Thus the above example will be something like this:15050ml-4800ml.
From then, I asked her to do her subtraction as usual. After which , I asked her to convert her answer back to litres and milli-litres. Though , there were times when she could not get the right answer but eventually, she managed to get the correct answer and understood the concept behind it. I was so happy that my effeort has finally paid off. Phew!!
Oh yeah there's a good news to share wif you all,
J scored 18/20for her maths ,15/20 for her English and 19.5/20 for her Chinese.
She is very smart... =)
--End of the dae--
Labels: 8.06.08, jean
Jelly! wobbled @
6th Aug! :DD
Everyone there from 4-6pm! :DD
missed the previous trip on the 30th cause i was training for the Guides Pioneering test (I passed!! :DD)
At first when i got there, An was away at percussion! D:
so i taught LeHa instead.
I was devastated!! nah just kidding :DD
in the start of the year, before SL began, i taught LeHa. He was really hard to handle, he refuses to concentrate, keeps asking you to buy stuff for him, simply ignores you if he ain't interested.
but he needed help and i was available, so i took him on anyway. and ah.. he has become better since the start of the year. He listened a little attentively, was able to do some questions. Then his attention wandered, but using coloured markers was effective in grabbing his interest in doing the questions. only problem was, he kept arguing with me over the markers he should use, and why the lady in the question had to give away her cupcakes -.-
with the markers we managed to do about 6 questions in one hour.. pretty okay :DD
and then An came out!
He was super enthusiastic and even gave me a warning before plopping down his book beside me "jiejie, you surely will have sorethroat when you finish teaching me! i got alot and alot of questions to ask you! *flips pages*"
haha so cute! in the end we managed to finish about 4 pages, not bad too :DD
several points to note:
When An doesnt know how to read a person's name in the question, like "Timothy has balhbalhablabh", i'ld tell him to just call the person "T", 'cause i feel the name isnt important, and "T" is all you need to draw a model.
but the teacher there felt that learning how to pronounce english words were important (it can also help him in English). So i taught him Timothy - Tea-Mole-Thea
and i also told him something that MrGan told me:
whenever you dont know a value, just show it out, but leave the details blank first!
pretty effective when it comes to drawing models, cause An hesitates to draw a model when he doesn't know the value. (like the current me haha)
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today we also asked the teachers to do the survey, because from what i was told, the teachers didnt allow themselves to do the survey last week, saying that we needed to clear it with their heads (Faith jiejie and Auntie Yewhwa) first.
Very valid point, so they asked Faith jiejie, who said that they can only grade when they were sitting beside us, so the survey was pushed back to today.
but when we gave the surveys out today, the teachers informed us that they had a meeting a few days ago, and that Auntie Yewhwa wanted to take a look at the surveys before we distributed them.. and i felt immensely guilty..
the whole survey could have been done better.. i didnt think of it then, but it was kinda rude of us not to clear with them the survey, particularly the principal, auntie yewhwa..
made us look bad.. sorry jellies >.<
i'll try and think before i do stuff next time @.@
Labels: 8.06.08, beryl
Jelly! wobbled @ Saturday, August 9, 2008
6 Aug (last visit before break for exams)
taught 4 ppl maths today -- no great feat though, also like spend 20mins teaching each
(1) QY was doing maths - addition/subtraction of money, quite tedious since have to add them up by doing workings after workings which made it more prone to errors as well
otherwise, not much problems
problems sums -- took time figuring out what's 5cents, =o.o5 but he wrote it as 0.50 at first, so need to take note as well
(2) taught another guy fractions -- simplification e.g 4/8 =1/2
think he was lazy to think so he simply wrote everything =1/1 which was obviously incorrect
so i taught him that only when numerator and denominator are the same, then the simplified one would be 1
also taught him a little of finding our the 'common factor' such as by trying whether both numerator and denominator and divide by 2,3,4, followed by 5 first before writing down the answer -- able to do without assistance after getting the concept
(3) taught an upper primary malay boy fractions corrections also -- i guess it's schoolwork but his teacher must be quite careless since she marked many of the questions wrong, and even after doing at least 5 pages, he got most of it wrong, showing that he had been doing them without even grasping the concept first
so i taught him the concept (1) find the common factor which applies only when both numerator and denominator are divisible by it (2) multiply with common factor to get the answer
unfortunately, he didnt seem to get it, so i taught him using visuals and he did get the common factor part correct, but the answer is still wrong
so i reminded him to multiply to the given but he finished the work correctly only with assistance by me
(4) finally, an upper primary boy doing corrections - no serious problems encoutered except that he misinterpreted the questions which affected the results. the corrections i guess were still mostly due to not focuseing when doing work
overall, nothing much for me today -- perhaps can make fraction notes for the kids
Labels: 8.06.08, farah
Jelly! wobbled @ Thursday, August 7, 2008
30 july
Ron was sick and wasnt at the centre that day so i went to teach the upper primary
taught JW at first but he got scolded for treating me badly (though it wasnt bad at all) and i felt weird to continue to teach him so i let sarah teach him
taught JJ instead -- he's very smart just easily distracted and a little lazy
he was able to figure out the steps towards the answer with just one hint from me though i must say that the sums were rather difficult for his level
he finished quickly after i nagged at him to do instead of looking around
so he packed up after he had completed
so i went on to teach a p4 top student there doing p5 work
not much help needed from me though
she was unsure with 2 questions in section B of the mock paper so i tried solving while she continued with the other questions
could see that she was very focus in finishing her work and didnt want to waste any time
even i took some time to finish the 2 questions, one of which i didnt quite understand the question (same as the topstudent) so i was rather unsure about the answer
we checked whether our answers were the same for both questions and ta da -- it's time for her to go
two other guys approached me regarding "fill-in-the-blanks" question which requires you to read through the entire passage and the answers in the box provided for you to choose before being able to answer all of them correctly
however, they were all in a rush so they hurried me
i let them redo the corrections themselves then i would check whether they are correct after that
in their hurry to finish i dunno whether their answers were correct as i didnt manage to read through everything, but simply see if the sentence structure was smooth with the choice they made
hope that i didnt cost them any more mistakes ...
Labels: 7.30.08, farah
Jelly! wobbled @ Saturday, August 2, 2008
29.8
Went to the centre without beryl.
Initially have no one to teach.
Later Farah introduce me to one
tutee.
So i took
JW for the day.
I guess he's a problem kid, cause two teachers scolded him severely that day.
Firstly due to him not paying attention
and
Secondly, because he used the excuse of : "my glasses spoilt so i can't see the words clearly thus unable to do"
On the second one, i thought he just say it for fun but didn't expect the volunteer to take it so seriously.
From this i felt that the volunteer scolded him for the sake of scolding and would look anywhere in order to find a topic to scold him.
Still, it can be seen that he is quite naughty as he couldn't bother to answer the volunteer's question correctly and looked very angry with his eyes turned white elsewhere while the volunteer scolded him.
He said he hated maths and felt science was much easier.
So i tell him that science will depend a lot on maths when he goes to secondary school. If he couldn't do the simple math question now, he will not be able to well in science in the future secondly school as he did so now.
Can see that he is quite worried though, but he do not really believe me.
Really, his maths work that day is actually on multiplication, the steps to take when multiplying 2 numbers.
He's a primary 4 but i remember that C already know how to multiply before i taught her division on the first session to the centre. and C is only
pri 3.
So, in conclusion his maths is not that good.
Thus we spent like years for him to finish his 2 page maths assignment cause he always don't want to do and talk to his friends.
Later after he finished his homework, i went off and saw a
pri 4 student teaching An maths.
He drew models to teach him! i was impressed that he is able to help An even though his level of education is only 1 years higher than An.
And An listened to him =)
That day is also the time to conduct survey.
It is not very successful as we only got about 5 responses from the students there and the volunteers couldn't do it for us as they want to sit beside us as we teach our
tutee in order for them to grade us.
Then it was too late, so the in-charge agreed to help us do it the next session.
But after missing 2 weeks the deadline for the finished report would have been out already.
K that's basically all.
Labels: 7.30.08, sarah
Jelly! wobbled @ Friday, August 1, 2008
