Saturday, November 10, 2007
Friday, November 9, 2007
My Final Post on 2007 PSLE Math Exam Paper
The questions reported in Straits Times are simplified!
Yes, if you have noticed, I have stopped posting for a while because I felt that justice was not done to our Primary 6 students.
Many claimed that they can solve the questions in 3 minutes, or did not find the question tough at all.
However, many readers were misled because the questions shown in the Straits Times are not asked in the exact manner as in the PSLE paper!!!
(of course, we cannot blame the Straits Times for not printing the real questions for they do not have the real one too!)
This is the newspaper report:
To help you see better, let's look at question 2 that was printed in the Straits Times:
6/14 of the chairs in a hall are in rows of 13. Half of the chairs are in rows of 7. There are 112 more chairs in rows of 7. The rest of the chairs are stacked up. Find the total number of chairs.
Now, take a look at the REAL question that was asked in 2007 PSLE Math paper:
There are some workers. They arranged chairs into short rows and long rows. There are 18 short rows and 7 long rows. Each long row has 16 more chairs than the short row. Half of the chairs are arranged into long rows while 3/7 of chairs are arranged in short rows. The rest of the remaining chairs are stacked in a corner.
a) What fraction of the chairs are stacked in the corner?
b) How many chairs are arranged in rows?
Do you see the difference?
Under exam environment, do you agree that the real question appears to be more difficult than the one shown in the newspapers?
Let's put all these pasts away and focus on what is ahead of us! (This will be my last post about 2007 PSLE paper)
Afterall, this is a changing world and we need to constantly change ourselves to meet the new demand. Continue to gear yourself up and strive for your best!
Yes, if you have noticed, I have stopped posting for a while because I felt that justice was not done to our Primary 6 students.
Many claimed that they can solve the questions in 3 minutes, or did not find the question tough at all.
However, many readers were misled because the questions shown in the Straits Times are not asked in the exact manner as in the PSLE paper!!!
(of course, we cannot blame the Straits Times for not printing the real questions for they do not have the real one too!)
This is the newspaper report:
To help you see better, let's look at question 2 that was printed in the Straits Times:
6/14 of the chairs in a hall are in rows of 13. Half of the chairs are in rows of 7. There are 112 more chairs in rows of 7. The rest of the chairs are stacked up. Find the total number of chairs.
Now, take a look at the REAL question that was asked in 2007 PSLE Math paper:
There are some workers. They arranged chairs into short rows and long rows. There are 18 short rows and 7 long rows. Each long row has 16 more chairs than the short row. Half of the chairs are arranged into long rows while 3/7 of chairs are arranged in short rows. The rest of the remaining chairs are stacked in a corner.
a) What fraction of the chairs are stacked in the corner?
b) How many chairs are arranged in rows?
Do you see the difference?
Under exam environment, do you agree that the real question appears to be more difficult than the one shown in the newspapers?
Let's put all these pasts away and focus on what is ahead of us! (This will be my last post about 2007 PSLE paper)
Afterall, this is a changing world and we need to constantly change ourselves to meet the new demand. Continue to gear yourself up and strive for your best!
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