North View Primary SchoolMathematics

North View Primary School

North View Primary School

AURORA - SC 550FIAMO - SC 6SC 20CASIO - FX 82AU, FX 82MS, FX 85MS, FX 95MS, FX 350MS, FX 820MS, FX 992SHEWLETT PACKARD - HP 8SHP, 9SHP10SSHARP - EL 509VM, EL 509 W, EL 509WM, EL 509WS, EL 546VA

TEXAS INSTRUMENTS - TI 30XIIB, TI 30XIIS, TI 34 II

Only calculators that are approved by the Singapore Examinations & Assessment

Board (SEAB) will be allowed in the examination.

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Paper 1 - 50 min- 40 marks- 30 MCQ & short answer questions of 1 or 2 marks - non-calculator component

Paper FormatPaper FormatPaper 2 - 1 hr 40 min- 60 marks- 28 questions (short answer & structured / long answers)- each question 3 to 5 marks- calculator component

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Paper 1 - 1 hour- 50 marks- 30 MCQ & short answer questions of 1 or 2 marks- non-calculator component

Paper Format Foundation Mathematics

Paper 2 - 1 hr 15 min- 50 marks- 18 questions (short answer & structured / long answers)- each question 3 to 5 marks- calculator component

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ExpectationsExpectations1) Revise and review

a) Revise daily

b) Review regularly

How?

- Cover the solutions and re-work the sums

- Use CODER

- Practice papers

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2) Quality work

a) Show clear working

b) Speed and accuracy

c) Clarity of working

ExpectationsExpectations

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3) Determination and perseverance

a) Attempt all questions starting from the first question.

b) Show some working. c) The last question is usually not

hard/novel. Don’t give up. Do guess & check when all else fails.

ExpectationsExpectations

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Adequate Practice is Adequate Practice is Necessary! Necessary!

Apart from Shaping Math Coursebook & Workbook, we have:

(1) Topical worksheets - to revise concepts & skills learned in every topic

(a) graded from level 1 to 3 (b) Heuristics questions are

incorporated in the topical worksheets

(2) Practice papers

What’s important?What’s important?

- Number sense- Identification of patterns- Spatial sense- identify concepts- choose the right strategies

for different problem sums. Eg for a certain question, to use model drawing or ratio?

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Model drawing or Model drawing or Ratio?Ratio?

John, Max and Peter had 320 books altogether. Max had 5 times more books than John. Peter had twice the number of books Max had. vsJohn, Max and Peter had 335 books altogether. Max had 5 more books than John. Peter had twice the number of books Max had.

Eg: What is the 98th shape?

98 6 = 16 r 2

Remainder 2

2nd shape!

Eddy used some toothpicks to make the following triangles.

If he made 1 triangle, he got this figure

If he added some toothpicks to the triangle, the figure became

If he continued to add more toothpicks to the triangle, the figure became

If he made 100 triangles, how many toothpicks did he use?

Example