For the past 3 weeks I have been teaching them Chapter 2 Proportion. I thought it was going to be fast. But it turned out to be too abstract for students to answer questions on maps and scales. It was difficult for some students to do conversion between km and cm and square km and square cm. A lot of pratice was given and students needed to be handheld each step. After giving two quizes on conversion and seeing students' improvement, I was confident that they were able to proceed to the next part which is direct and indirect propotion. When I was away for two days I had prepared two worksheets for them to do on this new topic. I realised that that does not work with the 2N3. They were not able to read examples on their own to be able to replicate the steps and solve the questions. They really need to be told what steps to take and they need a lot of pratice for each kind of question. Next time I would just prepare revision worksheets on last year's topics. At least they would not say that they have not been taught. I have decided to give them one question for homework (to be done in their notebook) on previous topics so that they will not forget what they have learnt so far and more questions on the current topic so that they have more practice.
So far I realised that Wen Fang, Wei Xiong, Bendy and Kai Leng are very hardworking and will do their best to get the answers to the questions set for them. There are some whom I have to work on and get their attention. Two new students joined last week and 1 who had just came back and I will gauge their abilities this coming week.
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