How do you teach this type of problem sum to P1 student?

[gancheongdaddy]

I gave this question to my daughter (currently in P1) to do (as I'm not sure what the correct solving method they are taught in school now) and this is what she did:

Step 1: Draw a number bond: 10 - 7 chocolates
- 3 sweets

Step 2: 7 - 3 = 4

There are 4 more sweets than chocolates

Hope this helps.

[BlurBerry]

The qn is from normal assessment bk?

Yes, it is.

As for the method by PiggyLalala, I tried. But he seems to be slow to understand. I'll have to try again.

I remember what it was like for me too. My daughter was an extremely slow learner. She had difficulty seeing things in perspective and on top of it has poor retention power. I've tried all sorts of visuals (from drawing pics on paper, using Powerpoint, coins, toys etc) to explain the problem. But for the life of me she just couldn't 'see' it. And when she did 'see' it, she would forget it the next day or maybe even the next hour. It was frustrating.

Her kindergarten teacher once told me that she couldn't learn as fast as other kids so she had to repeat and repeat for many days until my daughter got it. So I took her advice. But I vary the methods to see which one works better for her. The method she remembered most was making up silly stories about this 'more than' 'less than' situations and we laughed like mad over them. Well anything goes as long as she learns.

Gradually she grew out of this 'slow learning' phase. She's now in P6 and a far cry from her P1 days. Doing much better than I expected, considering she didn't even know all her ABCs in K1 (horror!).

Some kids need more time than others to get there. We just have to keep trying and love them.

[Blue Pearl]

Tks for ur sharing ThinkingLoft

[bb_ mom]

Have they learnt whole & part yet? I used this method when teaching DS last time.

[aggaliciousg]

Well said Blurberry!

We do get very frustrated with our children when they don't 'see' it, so encouraging stories like this tell us it's not the end of world! Haha

At least for me! Waiting for the day my gal will blossom aka 'Kai qiao'

The qn is from normal assessment bk?

Yes, it is.

As for the method by PiggyLalala, I tried. But he seems to be slow to understand. I'll have to try again.

I remember what it was like for me too. My daughter was an extremely slow learner. She had difficulty seeing things in perspective and on top of it has poor retention power. I've tried all sorts of visuals (from drawing pics on paper, using Powerpoint, coins, toys etc) to explain the problem. But for the life of me she just couldn't 'see' it. And when she did 'see' it, she would forget it the next day or maybe even the next hour. It was frustrating.

Her kindergarten teacher once told me that she couldn't learn as fast as other kids so she had to repeat and repeat for many days until my daughter got it. So I took her advice. But I vary the methods to see which one works better for her. The method she remembered most was making up silly stories about this 'more than' 'less than' situations and we laughed like mad over them. Well anything goes as long as she learns.

Gradually she grew out of this 'slow learning' phase. She's now in P6 and a far cry from her P1 days. Doing much better than I expected, considering she didn't even know all her ABCs in K1 (horror!).

Some kids need more time than others to get there. We just have to keep trying and love them.

[envyna]

cheem.. reading it, I am already quite confused lolz

[schen]

Yes. In Andrew Er's book, there's lots of such question