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Past students have gone from fail to top in class! Mr Wu is a good mentor, and elder brother to two medical students (one studying in Monash University, Australia, another studying in NUS)
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He would like to teach these techniques to students, hence choosing to become a full-time Mathematics tutor. Mr Wu has developed his own methods to check the answer, remember formulas (with understanding), which has helped a lot of students. Many Math questions can be checked easily, leading to the student being 100% confident of his or her answer even before the teacher marks his answer, and reducing the rates of careless mistakes.
Mr Wu’s friendly and humble nature makes him well-liked by students. Many of his students actually request for tuition by themselves! (not the parents) His students also look forward to tuition, instead of dreading tuition.
O Level E Maths and A Maths Tuition starting next year at Bishan, the best location in Central Singapore.
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Paper 1: 2 hours (120 min) — 80 marks
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Despite being in the Gifted Education Programme (GEP), Mr Wu is just an ordinary Singaporean. His secret to academic success is hard work and the Maths Techniques he has discovered by himself while navigating through the education system.
Directions to Bishan Tuition Centre:
A) Via BISHAN MRT (NS17/CC15)
(10 minutes by foot OR 2 bus stops from Junction 8. From J8, please take bus numbers, 52, 54 or 410 from interchange. The centre is just after Catholic High School, just beside Clover By-The-Park condominium.
Other landmarks are: the bus stop which students alight is in front of Blk 283, where Cheers minimart and Prime supermarket are.)
It’s one street away from Raffles Institution Junior College (RIJC), previously known as Raffles Junior College (RJC). It’s also very convenient for students of Catholic Junior College (CJC), Anderson Junior College (AJC), Yishun Junior College (YJC) and Innova Junior College (IJC).
Other secondary schools located near Bishan are Catholic High School, Kuo Chuan Presbyterian Secondary School, and Raffles Institution (Secondary).
Source: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/411726.article
Asia-Pacific higher education is becoming a global force, but only some nations in the region have achieved or approached parity with Western Europe and North America.
The truly spectacular success story is from the Confucian zone in East Asia. Japan achieved high participation rates and research-intensive universities in the 1970s: now Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and China are following suit. Student numbers and research are growing by leaps and bounds.
…
East Asia embodies a new Confucian model of higher education. The key is the willingness of families to invest in schooling, tertiary education and extra tuition. Households are driving the growth in participation. Private investment is secured less by neoliberal ideology than an older Confucian respect for self-formation via education, within a social hierarchy “harmonised” by fierce competition for university entry.
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China and Singapore maintain higher public funding. But the jury is still out on the extent to which these systems can foster a spirit of openness, criticism and free-wheeling creativity.
Continue reading at http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/411726.article
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By Chiu Peace | Yahoo Newsroom
“How many of our leaders and top officers who say that every school is a good school put their children in ordinary schools near their home? (Only) until they actually do so are parents going to buy (it).”
Those were the exact words of Jurong West Secondary School (JWSS) vice-principal Pushparani Nadarajah, who was responding to speakers and teachers’ discussions of making every school a good one at the inaugural AsiaEducationExpo (AEX) 2013, according to a report by The Straits Times.
During the first panel discussion, which was attended by about 200 participants, several educators expressed hope that parents would recognise the efforts of all schools to bring out the best in students.
The neighbourhood school’s vice principal’s startling remark drew applause from those who attended the event.
A 37-year-old mother, who has a primary-school-going child and another child attending pre-school, who did not want to be named, told Yahoo Singapore she agrees with the vice-principal’s comments.
“Look at the ministers, most of them are from good schools, like SJI and Hwa Chong,” she said.
Continue reading at http://sg.news.yahoo.com/jurong-west-secondary-vice-principal-takes-issue-with-%E2%80%98every-school-is-a-good-school–ideal-103224519.html
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Schedule: Monday 7pm-9pm
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Despite being in the Gifted Education Programme (GEP), Mr Wu is just an ordinary Singaporean. His secret to academic success is hard work and the Maths Techniques he has discovered by himself while navigating through the education system.
Directions to Bishan Tuition Centre:
A) Via BISHAN MRT (NS17/CC15)
(10 minutes by foot OR 2 bus stops from Junction 8. From J8, please take bus numbers, 52, 54 or 410 from interchange. The centre is just after Catholic High School, just beside Clover By-The-Park condominium.
Other landmarks are: the bus stop which students alight is in front of Blk 283, where Cheers minimart and Prime supermarket are.)
It’s one street away from Raffles Institution Junior College (RIJC), previously known as Raffles Junior College (RJC). It’s also very convenient for students of Catholic Junior College (CJC), Anderson Junior College (AJC), Yishun Junior College (YJC) and Innova Junior College (IJC).
Other secondary schools located near Bishan are Catholic High School, Kuo Chuan Presbyterian Secondary School, and Raffles Institution (Secondary).
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‘Above all, it is a cultural thing.” Professor Lianghuo Fan is reflecting on the differences he has noticed between maths education in China and Singapore, where he lived and taught for 40 years, and in Britain, where he is now based. “In China, all parents know that maths is the number one subject in schools, and they expect that in a modern society everyone must be comfortable with maths, even if that means they have to work hard at it.“That attitude is passed on to their children. But here in Britain, you can feel students’ attitude about mathematics is different. They feel all right if they say they don’t like mathematics.”
Professor Fan is not alone in highlighting this national phobia of ours about maths. The government has this week shown itself determined to tackle the problem head on with the unveiling of a new “back-to-basics” primary school maths curriculum, with a renewed emphasis on times-tables, mental arithmetic, fractions and rote learning.
Most people over 40 will see the proposals as a return to the classroom practice of their childhood – but in its introductory remarks the Department for Education claimed inspiration from Asian model that Professor Fan knows so well: “I never heard a child in China or Singapore say that they don’t like maths’,” he stresses, “without a sense of embarrassment.”
We are sitting in a café near Southampton University – where 50-year-old Professor Fan has been head of the Mathematics and Science Education Research Centre since 2010 – as we try to decide if anything lies behind the popular stereotype that Asian children are “naturally” better at maths than those in the West. It is, for example, in the core storyline of Safe, the recent Hollywood blockbuster, starring Jason Statham. An 11-year-old girl, Mei (played by Chinese-born actress Catherine Chan), is a maths prodigy who can decode number sequences at a glance – and therefore has to be protected from the baddies.
Source: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/shifts-must-be-made-in/879902.html
SINGAPORE: Education Minister Heng Swee Keat has said that two important shifts must be made in the education system in order to prepare the young for the future.
In a Facebook post on Friday evening, Mr Heng said firstly, the education system must help the young acquire deep skills and integrate theory with practice through applied learning.
Secondly, the system should make it easier for students to continue learning in their areas of strength and interest, and encourage lifelong learning.
Mr Heng said the education system needs to better link the interest and strengths of students to jobs of the future.
He explained that when students develop a deep interest, when their imagination is captured, they can go on to do wonderful things.
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Here is a Math Formula trick to have fun with your friends, to guess their Month of Birthday given their NRIC, within two tries.
(only works for Singapore citizens born after 1970)
For an example, if a person’s NRIC is S8804xxxx, we take 04, divide by 10 to get 0.4
Then, 0.4 multiplied by 3 gives 1.2
Then, guess that the person is either born in January (round down 1.2 to 1) or February (round up 1.2 to 2). There is a high chance that you are right! Usually, round up for the first six months (Jan to Jun), and round down for the last six months (Jul to Dec).
This formula was developed and tested by me. There are some exceptions to the rule, but generally it works fine especially for people born from 1980 to 2000.
Hope you have fun with maths, and impress your friends!
Doctor and Lawyer are the top two favourite careers in Singapore. Do doctors need to use Maths? Read the below to find out.
Even if Maths is not directly needed, the logical thinking skills learnt in Mathematics will definitely be of great use. 🙂
I am not a medical doctor, but my two younger siblings are medical students, and the Mathematical knowledge and thinking skills have definitely helped them in their medical studies.
Source: http://www.rossu.edu/medical-school/students/Mathematics-in-Medicine-.cfm
Functional numeracy is as essential to an aspiring medical professional as functional literacy. As a physician, perhaps the most important mathematical skills you will need are:
1. Basic mathematical knowledge sufficient to calculate drug doses, concentrations, etc.
2. An understanding of the core statistical concepts most commonly represented in the medical literature.
3. Knowledge of algebra to understand calculations of acid–base status, etc.
4. Ability to appreciate whether or not results are mathematically plausible. (Nusbaum, 2006)
The careful logical reasoning that is necessary for the study of mathematics is an essential element of clinical reasoning. Although you do not need higher mathematics to get through medical school, you will need the ability to manipulate numbers, including fractions, ratios, powers of 10 and logarithms. You will also need a basic understanding of probability, graphs and simple algebra. You will need to rearrange equations and convert between units of measure.
Source: http://everydaylife.globalpost.com/kind-math-work-doctor-know-26082.html
It’s often unclear from your interactions with a doctor how much math she is using in order to treat you. While not all doctors have to use math as directly and frequently as engineers do, all of them must understand the complex mathematical equations that inform different medical treatments in order to administer treatments correctly.
One of the most common ways in which doctors use mathematics is in the determination of medicine prescriptions and dosages. Doctors not only have to use basic arithmetic to calculate what dosage of a particular drug will be effective for your height and body type over a specific period of time, they will also have to be aware of the medicine’s cycle through the body and how the dosage of one drug compares with the dosage of a similar type of drug. Sometimes doctors have to use calculus to figure out the right dosage of a drug. Calculus is the study of how changing variables affect a system. In the human body, the kidney processes medicine. However, people’s kidneys are at varying levels of health. Doctors can designate the kidney as a changing function in a calculus equation known as the Cockroft-Gault equation. This equation uses the level of creatine in a patient’s blood to find the level of the kidney’s functioning, which allows the doctor to determine the appropriate dose.
When a doctor administers radiation therapy to a cancer patient, the radiation beams have to cross each other at specific angles, so that they harm the cancerous tumor without harming the surrounding healthy tissue. The precise numbers for these angles must be calculated mathematically. Cancer tends to respond to any drug by mutating so that its DNA is no longer affected by that drug. Oncologists and medical scientists have decided to target cancerous tumors with many different kinds of drugs at once so that the cancer is unable to respond adequately. They use complex mathematical models that plot the speed and timing of the cancer’s different mutations to figure out what combinations and dosages of different drugs should be used.
Doctors in medical imaging use two-dimensional images of a patient’s body taken from thousands of angles to create a three-dimensional image for analysis. Determining what angles should be used and how they will fit together requires mathematics. Medical researchers who study disease will analyze the mathematical dimensions of these images. Neurologists who run EEGs on patients to measure their brain waves must add and subtract different voltages and use Fourier transforms to filter out signal static. Fourier transforms are used to alter functions in calculus.
Medical scientists working with cardiologists use differential equations to describe blood flow dynamics. They also build sophisticated computer models to find the ideal size of an artificial aorta and where to place it in an infant pending a heart transplant. Doctors have to read medical journals to keep up on the latest scientific findings for the benefit of their patients. In addition to describing the calculus used to model health conditions, medical journal studies also make heavy use of statistics and probability to describe the health conditions of whole populations and the likelihood that different treatments will be effective.
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Aggregate Scores of Junior Colleges (JC)
Outliers: The Story of Success
L1R5 aggregate scores/ Cut Off Points (with bonus points) of students admitted to JCs in the 2012 Joint Admissions Exercise (JAE).
|
Junior College |
Arts |
Science/IB |
| Anderson JC |
10 |
8 |
| Anglo-Chinese JC |
7 |
6 |
| Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) |
– |
5 |
| Catholic JC |
10 |
10 |
| Hwa Chong Institution |
3 |
3 |
| Innova JC |
20 |
20 |
| Jurong JC |
13 |
16 |
| Meridian JC |
9 |
9 |
| Nanyang JC |
9 |
9 |
| National JC |
5 |
5 |
| Pioneer JC |
16 |
16 |
| Raffles Institution |
3 |
3 |
| Serangoon JC |
13 |
13 |
| St. Andrew’s JC |
9 |
9 |
| St. Joseph Institution |
– |
– |
| Tampines JC |
13 |
14 |
| Temasek JC |
7 |
6 |
| Victoria JC |
5 |
4 |
| Yishun JC |
20 |
20 |
Source: http://www.moe.gov.sg/education/admissions/jae/files/jae-info.pdf
http://www.dunearn.edu.sg/students/junior-college-admission-cut-off-points-2013
JC Cut Off Points (Bonus Points)| For students seeking admission to JC/Poly/ITE and with the following CCA grades:a. Grades of A1 – A2 (2 points)b. Grades of B3 – C6 (1 point) |
| For students seeking admission to JC/MI courses and with grades of A1 to C6 in both their first languages (i.e. English and a Higher Mother Tongue). This is provided that these choices come before any Poly/ITE choices.(2 points) |
| For students seeking admission to JC/MI courses and with grades of A1 to C6 in Malay/Chinese (Special Programme) (MSP/CSP) or Bahasa Indonesia (BI) as their third language. This is provided that these choices come before any Poly/ITE choices.(2 points) |
| For students from feeder schools if they choose their affiliated Junior College course(s) as their:a. 1st choice, or b. 1st and 2nd choices. (2 points) |
The bonus points can be deducted from their total points, and will be helpful to enter the JC (depending on the JC’s Cut Off Points). Theoretical Minimum Score is 0 points (if under CLEP or MLEP programme), otherwise minimum score is 2 points.
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O Level E Maths and A Maths.
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Email: mathtuition88@gmail.com
Source: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/teachers-have-profound/803528.html
Education Minister Heng Swee Keat said teachers “grow knowledge, instill beliefs, inculcate values, nurture passion, and in so doing, they shape the future” of students.
File photo: Minister for Education Heng Swee KeatSINGAPORE: Education Minister Heng Swee Keat said on Thursday “teachers affect all of us more deeply” than one can know.
In a Facebook post ahead of Teachers’ Day on Friday, Mr Heng sent his warmest thoughts and admiration to all teachers who dedicate themselves to bringing out the best in children.
In the tribute to all teachers, Mr Heng said they “grow knowledge, instill beliefs, inculcate values, nurture passion, and in so doing, they shape the future” of their students.
He added that every child who grows up confident and compassionate has been affected by a caring teacher in some way.
Mr Heng said in order to give every child a profound educational experience, every teacher must be a caring educator.
Continue reading at http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/teachers-have-profound/803528.html
Attached below are the Formula Lists for E Maths and A Maths (O Level)
Do be familiar with all the formulas for Elementary Maths and Additional Maths inside, so that you know where to find it when needed!
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Despite being in the Gifted Education Programme (GEP), Mr Wu is just an ordinary Singaporean. His secret to academic success is hard work and the Maths Techniques he has discovered by himself while navigating through the education system.
He would like to teach these techniques to students, hence choosing to become a full-time Mathematics tutor. Mr Wu has developed his own methods to check the answer, remember formulas (with understanding), which has helped a lot of students. Many Math questions can be checked easily, leading to the student being 100% confident of his or her answer even before the teacher marks his answer, and reducing the rates of careless mistakes.
Mr Wu’s friendly and humble nature makes him well-liked by students. Many of his students actually request for more tuition by themselves! (not the parents)
O Level E Maths and A Maths Tuition starting next year at Bishan, the best location in Central Singapore.
Timings are Monday 7-9pm, Thursday 7-9pm. Perfect for students who have CCA in the afternoon, or students who want to keep their weekends free.
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Q5) The speed of a boat in still water is 60 km/h.
On a particular day, the speed of the current is 
(a) Find an expression for the speed of the boat
(I) against the current, [1]
Against the current, the boat would travel slower! This is related to the Chinese proverb, 逆水行舟，不进则退, which means “Like a boat sailing against the current, we must forge ahead or be swept downstream.”
Hence, the speed of the boat is 
(ii) with the current. [1]
(b) Find an expression for the time required to travel a distance of 80km
(I) against the current, [1]
Recall that
Hence, the time required is 
(ii) with the current. [1]
(c) If the boat takes 20 minutes longer to travel against the current than it takes to travel with the current, write down an equation in 
Note: We must change 20 minutes into 1/3 hours!
There are many ways to proceed from here, one way is to change the Right Hand Side into common denominator, and then cross-multiply.
Cross-multiply,
(d) Solve this equation, giving your answers correct to 2 decimal places. [2]
Using the quadratic formula,
Answer to 2 d.p. is
(e) Hence, find the time taken, in hours, by the boat to complete a journey of 500 km against the current. [2]
Now we know that the speed of the current is 7.386 km/h.
Hence, the time taken is 
Secondary to JC Classes for Maths Group Tuition starting in 2014!
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Directions to Bishan Tuition Centre:
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Other landmarks are: the bus stop which students alight is in front of Blk 283, where Cheers minimart and Prime supermarket are.)
It’s one street away from Raffles Institution Junior College (RIJC), previously known as Raffles Junior College (RJC). It’s also very convenient for students of Catholic Junior College (CJC), Anderson Junior College (AJC), Yishun Junior College (YJC) and Innova Junior College (IJC).
Other secondary schools located near Bishan are Catholic High School, Kuo Chuan Presbyterian Secondary School, and Raffles Institution (Secondary).
Maths can be fun too!
Build up interest in Mathematics by trying out some of these interesting Maths Riddles.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_dollar_riddle
Three guests check into a hotel room. The clerk says the bill is $30, so each guest pays $10. Later the clerk realizes the bill should only be $25. To rectify this, he gives the bellhop $5 to return to the guests. On the way to the room, the bellhop realizes that he cannot divide the money equally. As the guests didn’t know the total of the revised bill, the bellhop decides to just give each guest $1 and keep $2 for himself. Each guest got $1 back: so now each guest only paid $9; bringing the total paid to $27. The bellhop has $2. And $27 + $2 = $29 so, if the guests originally handed over $30, what happened to the remaining $1?
Try it out before looking at the answer!
Dr Yeo Sze Ling is sincerely a good example of perseverance for all Maths students, including myself!
(Go to 01h18m50s)
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06PdmOSrboU#t=01h18m50s
Quote: http://sg.news.yahoo.com/pm-lee-tears-up-at-emotional-national-day-rally-with–heart–160531376.html
But perhaps the most memorable moment of all was when Lee became visibly emotional after sharing the heartwarming success story of visually handicapped A-star researcher Dr Yeo Sze Ling.
“Sze Ling proves that you can do well if you try hard, no matter what your circumstances, and that is also how we can contribute back to society, to keep the system fair for all,” said Lee, who then visibly teared and choked up, but quickly composed himself.
PM Lee was emphasising the importance of meritocracy in Singapore’s education system, which he acknowledged needed more changes — for example, it can be more holistic and less competitive.
Source: http://news.asiaone.com/news/edvantage/5-awarded-prestigious-presidents-scholarship-istana-ceremony
SINGAPORE – Five government scholarship recipients, including a missionaries’ child who grew up in Papua New Guinea and a Youth Olympic Games triathlete, have been awarded the prestigious President’s Scholarships this year, at a ceremony at the Istana on Friday evening.
Get the full story from The Straits Times.
Here is the full speech by President Tony Tan:
Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean and Mrs Teo
Minister for Education Heng Swee Keat
Excellencies
Chairman and Members of the Public Service Commission
Ladies and Gentlemen
Good evening.
Each year, the Public Service Commission awards scholarships to outstanding young men and women who want to serve Singapore and Singaporeans through a career in the Public Service. The most prestigious undergraduate scholarship awarded by the Commission is the President’s Scholarship.
It is awarded to young Singaporeans who have the integrity and commitment to work for Singapore’s continued success. To be awarded a President’s Scholarship, one must demonstrate more than just excellence in academic and non-academic pursuits. One must also show a strong ethos for public service, impeccable character, remarkable leadership and dedication towards improving the lives of Singaporeans.
2013 President’s Scholars This evening, the President’s Scholarship is awarded to five exceptional young individuals who have distinguished themselves based on their leadership capabilities and calibre, and their passion to bring the nation forward.
Continue reading at http://news.asiaone.com/news/edvantage/5-awarded-prestigious-presidents-scholarship-istana-ceremony
Source: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/rote-learning-has-to-make/779680.html
Education Minister Heng Swee Keat has said that with information readily available, rote learning has to make way for digital literacy.
SINGAPORE: Education Minister Heng Swee Keat has said that with information readily available, rote learning has to make way for digital literacy.
Speaking at the Second International Summit of the Book on Friday, Mr Heng said there is a need to place greater emphasis on critical and inventive thinking.
Whether it is a papyrus, print or the iPad, it seems that books are here to stay.
Professor Tommy Koh, chairman of the Organising Committee of the Second International Summit of the Book, and Ambassador-at-Large, said: “I think the book will endure to the end of time.
“But the form of the book has changed and will change. The container will change, the platform on which we read the book will also change.
“My children, for example, prefer to read the book either on the computer, on the iPad, on the tablet and other electronic forms. I still prefer the printed book. But in one form or another, the book will endure. There can be no human civilisation without books.”
But the question is whether readers are able to discern truths from untruths, especially in an era that is inundated with information.
Mr Heng said: “Some fear that the technologically sophisticated books of the future will dull the mind, as we no longer bother to use our imagination to render words into sounds and images.
“They worry too that we will forget to think for ourselves after we close the book because social media offers such an array of ready-made opinions that we will just pick one off the virtual shelf rather than form our own.
“We need to place greater emphasis on critical and inventive thinking, so that we may go on to imagine and create new insights.
“At the workplace, as the information revolution transforms the nature of work, our ability to move from theory to practice, to apply learning imaginatively in different contexts, and to create new knowledge, will become increasing valuable.”
Continue reading at http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/rote-learning-has-to-make/779680.html
Source: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/psle-could-move-away-from/777972.html
The head of the Government Parliamentary Committee (GPC) for Education, Member of Parliament Lim Biow Chuan, said that the Primary School Leaving Examination could do with less focus on aggregate scores.
SINGAPORE: The head of the Government Parliamentary Committee (GPC) for Education, Member of Parliament Lim Biow Chuan, said that the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) could do with less focus on aggregate scores.
He said that this would take away the stress associated with the examination.
Education Minister Heng Swee Keat said recently that changes to the PSLE will be announced at the National Day Rally on Sunday.
It is an annual affair that sends the nation’s parents, students and teachers into a frenzy — for many in Singapore, the PSLE has become a high-stakes examination.
Roger Cheong, a parent, said: “Maybe there should not be so much emphasis on PSLE at such a young age… Maybe as a gauge, but there shouldn’t be so so much weightage on it.
The Education Ministry has acknowledged this and embarked on a year-long review sometime in 2012.
Ahead of the announcements of possible changes, some have suggested going back to basics.
Mr Lim said: “I never knew what was my PSLE score. We selected a few schools that we chose and from there, MOE would post us to those schools, based on our performance. So you don’t have to go down to those minute details as to whether you score 270 or 265 or 275.
“You get broad-based results, and from there, you are allocated schools of your choice. It may not be the exact school of your choice, but it may be a group of schools that you choose and all of them are in the same category.”
Mr Lim also hoped to see more places set aside for the Direct School Admission (DSA) exercise, where students apply to secondary schools based on their achievements and talents before the release of their PSLE results.
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Source: http://ww1.math.nus.edu.sg/
The history of the Department of Mathematics at NUS traces back to 1929, when science education began in Singapore with the opening of Raffles College with less than five students enrolled in mathematics. Today it is one of the largest departments in NUS, with about 70 faculty members and teaching staff supported by 13 administrative and IT staff. The Department offers a wide selection of courses (called modules) covering wide areas of mathematical sciences with about 6,000 students enrolling in each semester. Apart from offering B.Sc. programmes in Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Quantitative Finance, the Department also participates actively in major interdisciplinary programs, including the double degree programme in Mathematics/Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, the double major programmes in Mathematics and Economics as well as with other subjects, and the Computational Biology programme. Another example of the Department’s student centric educational philosophy is the Special Programme in Mathematics (SPM), which is specially designed for a select group of students who have a strong passion and aptitude for mathematics. The aim is to enable these students to build a solid foundation for a future career in mathematical research or state-of-the-art applications of mathematics in industry.
The Department is ranked among the best in Asia in mathematical research. It offers a diverse and vibrant program in graduate studies, in fundamental as well as applied mathematics. It promotes interdisciplinary applications of mathematics in science, engineering and commerce. Faculty members’ research covers all major areas of contemporary mathematics. For more information, please see research overview, selected publications, and research awards.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_grading_in_Singapore
Singapore‘s grading system in schools is differentiated by the existence of many types of institutions with different education foci and systems. The grading systems that are used at Primary, Secondary, and Junior College levels are the most fundamental to the local system used.
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The GPA table for Raffles Girls’ School and Raffles Institution (Secondary) is as below:
| Grade | Percentage | Grade point |
|---|---|---|
| A+ | 80-100 | 4.0 |
| A | 70-79 | 3.6 |
| B+ | 65-69 | 3.2 |
| B | 60-64 | 2.8 |
| C+ | 55-59 | 2.4 |
| C | 50-54 | 2.0 |
| D | 45-49 | 1.6 |
| E | 40-44 | 1.2 |
| F | <40 | 0.8 |
The GPA table differs from school to school, with schools like Dunman High School excluding the grades “C+” and “B+”(meaning grades 50-59 is counted a C, vice-versa) However, in other secondary schools like Hwa Chong Institution and Victoria School, there is also a system called MSG (mean subject grade) which is similar to GPA that is used.
| Grade | Percentage | Grade point |
|---|---|---|
| A1 | 75-100 | 1 |
| A2 | 70-74 | 2 |
| B3 | 65-69 | 3 |
| B4 | 60-64 | 4 |
| C5 | 55-59 | 5 |
| C6 | 50-54 | 6 |
| D7 | 45-49 | 7 |
| E8 | 40-44 | 8 |
| F9 | <40 | 9 |
The mean subject grade is calculated by adding the points together, then divided by the number of subjects. For example, if a student got A1 for math and B3 for English, his MSG would be (1+3)/2 = 2.
The results also depends on the bell curve.
Just to share an inspirational story about studying Mathematics, and our very own Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. 🙂
Source: http://www2.ims.nus.edu.sg/imprints/interviews/BelaBollobas.pdf
(page 8/8)
Interview of Professor Béla Bollobás, Professor and teacher of our Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong
I: Interviewer Y.K. Leong
B: Professor Béla Bollobás
I: I understand that you have taught our present Prime
Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
B: I certainly taught him more than anybody else in
Cambridge. I can truthfully say that he was an exceptionally
good student. I’m not sure that this is really known in
Singapore. “Because he’s now the Prime Minister,” people
may say, “oh, you would say he was good.” No, he was truly
outstanding: he was head and shoulders above the rest of
the students. He was not only the first, but the gap between
him and the man who came second was huge.
I: I believe he did double honors in mathematics and computer science.
B: I think that he did computer science (after mathematics) mostly because his father didn’t want him to stay in pure mathematics. Loong was not only hardworking, conscientious and professional, but he was also very inventive. All the signs indicated that he would have been a world-class research mathematician. I’m sure his father never realized how exceptional Loong was. He thought Loong was very good. No, Loong was much better than that. When I tried to tell Lee Kuan Yew, “Look, your son is phenomenally good: you should encourage him to do mathematics,” then he implied that that was impossible, since as a top-flight professional mathematician Loong would leave Singapore for Princeton, Harvard or Cambridge, and that would send the wrong signal to the people in Singapore. And I have to agree that this was a very good point indeed. Now I am even more impressed by Lee Hsien Loong than I was all those years ago, and I am very proud that I taught him; he seems to be doing very well. I have come round to thinking that it was indeed good for him to go into politics; he can certainly make an awful lot of difference.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_schools_in_Singapore#Junior_Colleges_.28JC.29
These offer two-year courses leading to the GCE A-level examination.
| Code | Zone | College Name | Established | Address | Type | Special Programmes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English | Chinese | Abb. | ||||||
| 0705 | North | Anderson Junior College | 安德逊初级学院 | AJC | 1984 | 4500 Ang Mo Kio Avenue 6 | Government | |
| 7001 | West | Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) IB World School | 英华中学 (自主) | ACS(I)-IBDP | 2004 (IBDP) | 121 Dover Road | Independent | IP, MEP |
| 0803 | West | Anglo-Chinese Junior College | 英华初级学院 | ACJC | 1977 | 25 Dover Close East | Government-Aided | MEP, DEP(TSD), LEP (EL) |
| 0802 | South | Catholic Junior College | 公教初级学院 | CJC | 1975 | 129 Whitley Road | Government-Aided | LEP (EL) |
| 3101 | East | Dunman High School | 德明政府中学 | DHS | 2005 – IP | 10 Tanjong Rhu Road | Autonomous | IP, MEP, BSP, LEP (CL), AEP |
| 0806 | Central | Hwa Chong Institution | 华侨中学 | HCI | 1974 | 661 Bukit Timah Road | Independent | IP, HP, LEP (CL), AEP, BSP |
| 0713 | North | Innova Junior College | 星烁初级学院 | IJC | 2005 | 21 Champions Way | Government | LEP (ML) |
| 0703 | West | Jurong Junior College | 裕廊初级学院 | JJC | 1981 | 800 Corporation Road | Government | LEP (CL) |
| 0712 | East | Meridian Junior College | 美廉初级学院 | MJC | 2003 | 21 Pasir Ris Street 71 | Government | |
| 0908 | West | Millennia Institute | 励仁高级中学 | MI | 2004 | 60 Bukit Batok West Avenue 8 | Government | DTP |
| 0805 | North | Nanyang Junior College | 南洋初级学院 | NYJC | 1978 | 128 Serangoon Avenue 3 | Government-Aided | LEP (CL), AEP |
| 0712 | Central | National Junior College | 国家初级学院 | NJC | 1969 | 37 Hillcrest Road | Government | IP, HP, AEP, MEP, STaR |
| 7801 | West | NUS High School of Mathematics and Science | 新加坡国立大学附属数理中学 | NUSHS | 2005 | 20 Clementi Ave 1 | Independent | IP, DIP |
| 0711 | West | Pioneer Junior College | 先驱初级学院 | PJC | 1999 | 21 Teck Whye Walk | Government | |
| 0704 | South | Raffles Institution | 莱佛士初级学院 | RI | 1826 | 10 Bishan Street 21 | Independent | IP, HP, LEP (JL), LEP (EL), MEP, TSD |
| 3103 | West | River Valley High School | 立化中学 | RVHS | 1956 2006 – IP | 6 Boon Lay Avenue | Autonomous | IP, BSP |
| 0710 | North | Serangoon Junior College | 实龙岗初级学院 | SRJC | 1988 | 1033 Upper Serangoon Road | Government | |
| 0804 | South | Saint Andrew’s Junior College | 圣安德烈初级学院 | SAJC | 1978 | 55 Potong Pasir Avenue 1 | Government-Aided | |
| 0709 | East | Tampines Junior College | 淡滨尼初级学院 | TPJC | 1986 | 2 Tampines Avenue 9 | Government | LEP (ML), TSD |
| 0702 | East | Temasek Junior College | 淡马锡初级学院 | TJC | 1977 | 22 Bedok South Road | Government | IP, HP, LEP (CL), MEP |
| 0706 | East | Victoria Junior College | 维多利亚初级学院 | VJC | 1984 | 20 Marine Vista | Government | IP, HP, TSD, NAV |
| 0708 | North | Yishun Junior College | 义顺初级学院 | YJC | 1986 | 3 Yishun Ring Road | Government | |
The only centralised institute is Millennia Institute (MI), which offers a three-year course leading to the GCE A-level examination in arts, science, and commerce.[3]
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_secondary_schools_in_Singapore
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-53rIy7RGg
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-53rIy7RGg
Published on Jul 9, 2012
SINGAPORE – Douglas Tan was only seven years old when he discovered a knack for solving mathematical problems, tackling sums meant for the upper primary and secondary levels.
He went on to join the Gifted Programme in Rosyth Primary School and, in 2006, enrolled in the National University of Singapore High School of Math and Science (NUSHS). At 15, he was offered a place at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Faculty of Science to study mathematics.
Tomorrow, the 19-year-old will be this year’s youngest graduate at NUS, receiving his Mathematics degree with a First Class Honours. This puts him almost six years ahead of those his age.
Douglas, who is currently serving his National Service (NS), said the thought of going to prestigious universities overseas never occurred to him. “I was just happy doing what I was doing – solving math problems,” he said.
In every class he took, Douglas was the youngest but it was neither “awkward nor tough to fit in”, he said. In fact, his age was a good conversation starter and his classmates, who were typically three to five years older, would take care of him.
Seeing that he could complete his degree before he entered NS, Douglas took on three modules a semester and completed the four-year course in just two and a half years.
The longest he had ever spent on a math problem was 10 hours over a few days. “I’m a perfectionist. When I do a problem, I try to do it with 100 per cent,” he noted.
Douglas aspires to be a mathematician and is looking into a Masters degree but he has yet to decide if he wants to do it here or overseas.
Another young outstanding graduate this year is 20-year-old Carmen Cheh, who received her degree in Computer Science last Friday with a First Class Honours and was on the dean’s list every academic year of the four-year course.
Offered a place at the NUS School of Computing after three and a half years in NUSHS, Carmen was then the youngest undergraduate of the programme at 16.
She was introduced to computer science and concept programming at 11 by her father, a doctor who also challenged her to solve puzzles he created. Her inability to solve them spurred her interest in the subject.
Carmen, who is from Perak in Malaysia, said she decided to study for her degree in Singapore as she wanted to study in a country she felt “comfortable” in. At the same time, she was awarded an ASEAN scholarship to study in the Republic.
Next month, Carmen will begin her doctoral programme in Computer Science with a research assistantship at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
The youngest ever to enrol into the NUS undergraduate programme is Abigail Sin, who entered the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music at 14. She graduated in 2010 at age 18 with First Class Honours. She also received the Lee Kuan Yew gold medal.
This week, NUS celebrates the graduation of 9,913 students, its largest cohort in six years.
http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC120709-0000039/Theyre-ahead-of-the-class
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Tips on attempting Geometrical Proof questions (O Levels E Maths/A Maths)
1) Draw extended lines and additional lines. (using pencil)
Drawing extended lines, especially parallel lines, will enable you to see alternate angles much easier (look for the “Z” shape). Also, some of the more challenging questions can only be solved if you draw an extra line.
2) Use pencil to draw lines, not pen
Many students draw lines with pen on the diagram. If there is any error, it will be hard to remove it.
3) Rotate the page.
Sometimes, rotating the page around will give you a fresh impression of the question. This may help you “see” the way to answer the question.
4) Do not assume angles are right angles, or lines are straight, or lines are parallel unless the question says so, or you have proved it.
For a rigorous proof, we are not allowed to assume anything unless the question explicitly says so. Often, exam setters may set a trap regarding this, making the angle look like a right angle when it is not.
5) Look at the marks of the question
If it is a 1 mark question, look for a short way to solve the problem. If the method is too long, you may be on the wrong track.
6) Be familiar with the basic theorems
The basic theorems are your tools to solve the question! Being familiar with them will help you a lot in solving the problems.
Hope it helps! And all the best for your journey in learning Geometry! Hope you have fun.
“There is no royal road to Geometry.” – Euclid
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Solution:
From the graph,
Median = 50th percentile = $22,000 (approximately)
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Hence, the median is higher.
The mean is a better measure of central tendency, as it is a better representative of the gross annual income of the people. This is because more people have an income closer to the mean, rather than the median.
Many parents have feedback to me that their child often makes careless mistakes in Maths, at all levels, from Primary, Secondary, to JC Level. I truly empathize with them, as it often leads to marks being lost unnecessarily. Not to mention, it is discouraging for the child.
Also, making careless mistakes is most common in the subject of mathematics, it is rare to hear of students making careless mistakes in say, History or English.
Fortunately, it is possible to prevent careless mistakes for mathematics, or at least reduce the rates of careless mistakes.
From experience, the ways to prevent careless mistakes for mathematics can be classified into 3 categories, Common Sense, Psychological, and Math Tips.
Common Sense
to prevent confusion with 1. Also, in Complex Numbers in H2 Math, write z with a line in the middle, like Ƶ, to avoid confusion with 2.Psychological
, it turns out that the constant is a “nice number”.Mathematical Tips
Mathematical Tips are harder to apply, unlike the above which are straightforward. Usually students will have to be taught and guided by a teacher or tutor.
, you should substitute back a certain value for x, like x=2. Then check if both the left-hand-side and right-hand-side gives the same answer. (LHS=1/3, RHS=1/2-1/6=1/3) This usually gives a very high chance that you are correct.Thanks for reading this long article! Hope it helps! 🙂
I will add more tips in the future.
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