Comments on: flooding http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2007/02/12/flooding/ The life and education of two growing beans - our 10th year of blogging Tue, 25 Mar 2025 09:18:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.34 By: Helen http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2007/02/12/flooding/#comment-3776 Wed, 14 Feb 2007 00:49:18 +0000 http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2007/02/12/flooding/#comment-3776 we have enjoyed the brainbox primary plus. SB plays with it a fair amount. not always sure how much actual learning she does – but must be something going in! the kits are easy to use. i think there should be a bit more explanation in them though about what is actually going on [as in there is none]
we are still using my pals are here and the older primary maths books as Sb gets on well with them. her reading is behind her maths, so the word ones are a bit of a problem! we do have joining cubes and cuisinaires to help though.
thanks for the link Raihanah. Hope life is good for you out there.

]]> By: Raihanah http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2007/02/12/flooding/#comment-3775 Tue, 13 Feb 2007 04:36:24 +0000 http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2007/02/12/flooding/#comment-3775 I would like your opinion of the Brainbox electronics sets. I wanted to buy it in England, but didn’t as we were moving to Singapore at the time. I’ve found the Brainbox 500 which is equivalent to the Primary Plus in the UK (but I think this set comes from Australia or New Zealand instead). Anyway, they are selling it here for about the equivalent of 17 pounds. Is it worth it?

Secondly, I found a website http://www.singapore-math-online.com/ that has a free demo at the bottom related to Singapore style maths. My kids like to watch them. As well as learning a bit about the math styles here, your kids will be able to hear the mixture of Singapore-English accents in the cartoons :).

From year 2 the teachers really seem to focus on using models to solve word problems. It is stressed throughout primary school- and seems to be in the newest curriculum. So, instead of teaching a kid how to solve a word problem straightforwardly with addition/subtraction, the kids must draw a model before doing the addition/subtraction. It seems a bit backwards to me, though. I know that younger kids sometimes learn better by *seeing* models, but I think it is harder for them to actually think up the models.

Raihanah

]]> By: Bob http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2007/02/12/flooding/#comment-3774 Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:32:37 +0000 http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2007/02/12/flooding/#comment-3774 Obviously the hospital had been unable to invest in repairs and maintenance due to the iniquitous funding structures imposed by central government, aggravated by incompetent local management.

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