T1W8 - 4E1

This class is rather weak. Many of their foundation is not there. I have completed Probability with them and will be giving them the test tomorrow. Many of them are able to do probability as compared to circles which they are very weak in. I think my challenge now is to try to motivate this group of students. I intend to come up with this top scorer template and print it out and paste in on the notice board. For every test, Im going to write down the name of the 3 top scorers for all to see on the notice board. Hopefully, this will motivate the class as seeing their name will inspire them to work harder for Maths. I shall try this next term as Term 1 is drawing to an end soon.

T1W8 - 4E2

4E2 seems better now in terms of their attitude. They are quieter in class and when given seat work, I notice many of them actually attempting the questions and discussing the work with their partners. The talkative ones are more focussed in class now that they are seated away from their friends. The new seating arrangment worked because I marked their probability test and many of them passed. Especially those who failed the previous test. I have students who even scored 15 and above for the test and these students used to be very distracted and michievious in class. Hence, Im going to stick with this new seating arrangment as it works in getting them to be less distracted and more focussed in class.

I started on cumulative frequency this week. I intend to go at a faster pace for this chapter in order to catch up with the SOW.

T1 W5 - 3N (O)

I am rather slow with this class. I just started Chapter 2 with them and I am very far behind the SOW. But thats because, they are so weak in Indices and many of them kept failing their tests. I start to wonder how some of them even got to do O level maths as they seem to have difficulty in grasping simple concepts too! I need a lot of drill and practice with this class.

T1W5 - 4E Maths

For this week, I continued on probability for 4E1 and 4E2.

4E2: 4E2 is a big class comprising 41 students. Initially I had difficulties managing this class because they are v TALKATIVE. They just cant seem to stop talking to their friends. Especially this group of boys and some of the girls. (Can i name names in this reflection? Haha.) I tried to make the lesson more interesting by showing them the 21 DVD and talking about counting cards and they still wasnt able to get them to be more attentive. Exasperated, I spoke to Mrs Tay , their form teacher regarding the background of the class. Through my conversation with her , I found out that the class chose their own seats and they are all seated next to their good friends.

Hence, I decided to do up my own seating arrangement for the class for Maths lesson. I identified the talkative ones and separated them. I also pulled out the weaker students, some of whom were sitting right at the back and made them sit in front. After that, there was an improvement! They were more attentive, and I could tell many of them were concentrating and doing seat work when I assigned it to them. Heartening to see the slight improvement.

4E1: 4E1 has changed a lot this yr! for the better :) I can safely say many of them are taking their studies more seriously esp. after I kept scaring them about the need to pass maths if they want to go jc, poly. Some of them are really weak, but at least their attitude is better than last year. I feel very happy when students like Dian get full marks for circles test. Heartening!!