GreatSchools’ readers share their ideas for avoiding battles on the homefront over homework. Is homework a struggle at your house? You’re not alone. Many parents have been there and wrote to share their advice about what helped end the homework battles with their kids. Establish …
1. Misread Direction Errors These errors occur when you skip directions or misunderstand directions but answer the question or do the problem anyway. To avoid this type of error, read all the directions. 2. Careless Errors Mistakes made which can be caught automatically upon reviewing …
A. Translate the questions into your own words. B. Read each option carefully. C. Use a strategy: Attack unfamiliar words by sounding them out, by breaking them into familiar parts with meanings you know, by looking at the surrounding words and sentences for clues to …
WHAT IS STUDY? – Study is the skill of learning something independently of a teacher. Obviously I did not mean that a 5 year-old should be reading and studying textbooks at night after going to school! Being an independent learner in Kindergarten means things like …
The following is derived from my eight years of teaching mathematics from Primary 1 level to JC 2. 1st Gap – From Lower Primary to Upper Primary Somewhere in Primary Three problem sums that require the drawing of simple models begin to appear and in …
When preparing for a Maths exam, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by the amount of work that you need to do, or the amount of content that you need to cover. Moreover, anyone who’s not a natural mathematician will find it difficult to break down …
