I don't see the point. The school wants to train on critical thinking but yet do not teach the skills? How are the poor 7-year-olds going to learn? Sorry, I'm not trying to criticise Tim's school. I just can't understand MOE's direction and where the new education system is heading to. Thinking skill is developed over time, exposure and guidance, and not just by throwing such hypothetical open questions. In the end, parents are the ones who do the homework. Even more laughable is that schools are now including these home assignments into the students' grades. So who benefit? The students who parents dictate the answer to their homework. (Definitely not referring to you, you are guiding and prompting Tim in his worksheet, but I really see people who tell the children what to write, word for word).
Sorry to use you space to vent. I'm just going through the same and it's driving me nuts.
i have same thots, but not good in putting them in words. this is what I always kao peh about whenver I read jaz assignment. I tried not to help her and get her to think for herself but a bit sim tia, cuase I know she's totally clueless about wat the questions are leading to.
thought there are no right and wrong answers, there are still some teaachers who will criticise your answers even though i find it is a reasonable answer for a P1 kid then.
sometimes the teachers use model answers to mark these thinking questions which defeat the whole Thinking School Learning Nation Model.
"In the end, parents are the ones who do the homework." ~ how true...me for one hate to have to coach him on his homework for them, esp after a long day at work. Tim can be quite stubborn. He stood by his answer and refused to change it. I too let him be. Sometimes, I also want to see how the teacher is going to correct it. Problem is...so far I have not seen any of the critical thinking papers that have already been handed up.
eh, forgive me but i think my answer is : ignorant - letters should be posted in post boxes, not postman
answer for 2 - it has to be sorted because postman is supposed to deliver letters, now that he has a letter to be posted, he will have to be sorted so as to seperate those to be delivered and those to be posted?!?!?!?!?
"ignorant - letters should be posted in post boxes, not postman" ~ the worksheet has a picture of the postman and the girl standing next to a post box!
Your answer for no. 2 makes no sense since the postman was there to collect the letters from the postbox!
Questioning the questiondaynemaMay 17 2005, 15:26:12 UTC
*haha* That was good - letters ARE NOT given to the postman!
My daughter WOULD have been stumped just by that. And then wouldn't know how to answer it. She did just that in P1 for a Math question that said something like this:
There were 3 ducks and 2 chickens. How many are there altogether in the pond.?
gee. what kind of question is that? Are we to assume that the ducks are really in the pond just b/c they can swim? OR... as dd questioned, "what are the chickens doing in the pond?!" *haha*
I emailed the school about how distressed dd was over this question, and the next thing I heard was that the students were all asked to change the "pond" to "farm".
To this day, dd never ceases to be amused by such inaccuracies and ambigious statements in her schoolwork or any books or material for that matter, including typo, spelling and grammatical errors (now that she's older !!!) I think can employ her to be "editor", liao. She's now in P5.
I will, that is, if any of the papers make their way home. This is critical thinking 6 and I have yet to see the corrected paper on Critical thinking 1 to 5.
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1. She's a good girl.
2. They are messy.
That's the mind of a 2 year old.
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Sorry to use you space to vent. I'm just going through the same and it's driving me nuts.
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this is what I always kao peh about whenver I read jaz assignment. I tried not to help her and get her to think for herself but a bit sim tia, cuase I know she's totally clueless about wat the questions are leading to.
thought there are no right and wrong answers, there are still some teaachers who will criticise your answers even though i find it is a reasonable answer for a P1 kid then.
sometimes the teachers use model answers to mark these thinking questions which defeat the whole Thinking School Learning Nation Model.
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"In the end, parents are the ones who do the homework."
~ how true...me for one hate to have to coach him on his homework for them, esp after a long day at work. Tim can be quite stubborn. He stood by his answer and refused to change it. I too let him be. Sometimes, I also want to see how the teacher is going to correct it.
Problem is...so far I have not seen any of the critical thinking papers that have already been handed up.
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ignorant - letters should be posted in post boxes, not postman
answer for 2 - it has to be sorted because postman is supposed to deliver letters, now that he has a letter to be posted, he will have to be sorted so as to seperate those to be delivered and those to be posted?!?!?!?!?
someone slap me pls
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"ignorant - letters should be posted in post boxes, not postman"
~ the worksheet has a picture of the postman and the girl standing next to a post box!
Your answer for no. 2 makes no sense since the postman was there to collect the letters from the postbox!
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My daughter WOULD have been stumped just by that. And then wouldn't know how to answer it. She did just that in P1 for a Math question that said something like this:
There were 3 ducks and 2 chickens.
How many are there altogether in the pond.?
gee. what kind of question is that? Are we to assume that the ducks are really in the pond just b/c they can swim? OR... as dd questioned, "what are the chickens doing in the pond?!" *haha*
I emailed the school about how distressed dd was over this question, and the next thing I heard was that the students were all asked to change the "pond" to "farm".
To this day, dd never ceases to be amused by such inaccuracies and ambigious statements in her schoolwork or any books or material for that matter, including typo, spelling and grammatical errors (now that she's older !!!) I think can employ her to be "editor", liao. She's now in P5.
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What Tim wrote is appropriate enuf, but a bit long right.
Let us know how the teacher marks.
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Q2: They must be sorted out because we, the customers, paid for the postage if not, SingPost will not be giving out dividends to their shareholders.
Sorry, I'm out of my mind!
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