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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

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