Saturday, 4 April 2015

Why Attend Maths Tuition Class

Studying mathematics is one of the biggest challenges that exist these days. As the subject is complex, students have been highly recommended to remain a lot more focused on it than any other subject out there. Due to this, they should give more time to the subject in order to understand it well. However, a lot of times, students come across many other problems which they may not be able to solve alone. In such cases, attending maths tuition class becomes rather necessary for everyone. These classes are definitely the best way for gaining more knowledge regarding the subject and have been proven to provide positive results for many students worldwide.
Top Grades
Another important reason for attending these classes is the fact that they tend to allow students to score well. As everyone wishes to acquire a good know-how of the subject, they must go for these classes as they eventually acquire their goal in a short period of time and that too, without facing a huge amount of hindrances in the matter. Scoring high is every student’s desire and in order for that to come true eventually, these classes must be attended on a day to day basis since they tend to enhance the overall knowledge of the subject in all possible ways.
Widely Available
Maths tuition class is something which is currently being provided everywhere. More and more teachers as well as other qualified individuals can be seen to be providing students with an opportunity to learn the subject in a great way with the assistance that they need. Students from all over the world can benefit from these classes as they are being given everywhere, which means that every other student who wants to learn maths in a much better way can now do so without having to go anywhere far for the matter.
Cost Effective
On the other hand, these classes are actually not as expensive as many students may think. As the demand for these classes can be seen to be increasing on a great scale through every passing day, students should be glad to know that these do not cost as much. While professional classes for assistance mostly do cost a lot, individuals can easily come across a wide range of different sorts of maths classes which are effective in all possible ways. Therefore, attending maths tuition class now is not something that only a handful of students are able to do, but it is something that all students can benefit from in the short as well as the long run.
Exam & Test Preparation
As far as attending these classes is concerned, another prominent advantage that really must not be missed out by people is the fact that this tends to prepare students for special tests as well as final examinations which are conducted all year around in all schools, colleges as well as universities over the world. Attending these classes allows students to make their preparation much better and enhanced than before, which is always a great thing as it most definitely leads to higher grades in the future.
The Conclusion
With all that these classes have to offer, students must really think about attending these since they are definitely something which can make them achieve high end results and that too, in a short period of time. Since these classes are affordable in comparison with many other ways of achieving assistance in learning more about maths, they have been highly recommended to students from all over the world. Lately, a lot of students have joined these classes as the results they are said to acquire are astonishing and definitely something worth attending and spending on.









Friday, 27 March 2015

Teaching Problem Solving Heuristics in Mathematics

What are heuristics?

Heuristics are techniques students can use to tackle a problem when the solution to the problem is not obvious. Some examples of heuristics are listed below and grouped into four categories according to how they are used: To give a representation e.g. draw a diagram, make a list, use equations To make a calculated guess e.g. guess and check, look for patterns, make suppositions To go through the process e.g. act it out, work backwards, before-after To change the problem e.g. restate the problem, simplify the problem, solve part of the problem Here is an example of one that involves guess and check: The perimeter of a rectangle is 42 cm. Its area is 108 cm2. Find its length and breadth. Since the perimeter of the rectangle is 42 cm, the sum of its length and breadth will be 21 cm. Make a list of the possible lengths and breadths.



Singapore mathematics syllabuses

The Singapore mathematics syllabuses, developed by Curriculum Planning and Developing Division (CPDD), Ministry of Education Singapore (MOE), have identified thirteen heuristics that are applicable to mathematical problem solving.
1. Act it out
2. Use a diagram/model
3. Use guess-and-check
4. Make a systematic list
5. Look for patterns
6. Work backwards
7. Use before-after concept
8. Make suppositions
9. Restate the problem in another way
10. Simplify the problem
11. Solve part of the problem
12. Think of a related problem
13. Use equations (Heuristics 12 and 13 are not in the primary syllabus.)

We can also treat these four ideas as four general heuristics, “use different representations”, “simplify your problem”, “approach your problem from different directions”, and “bring in solutions”.


Figure 1: Model for problem solving in mathematics (Tiong, Hedberg, & Lioe, 2005)

By definition, all heuristics have the following two characteristics: 1. Heuristics do not guarantee a solution. All heuristics do is pointing us towards possible ways in which we might be able to find our solution. 2. Heuristics do not come with specific procedures. When we use heuristics, we are required to make some judgments of our own regarding what we should do. Heuristics help us to deal with difficult problems or problems that we are not familiar with. Other than that, heuristics usually enables us to find solutions with less time and effort as compared to when we use algorithms to find solutions. Not all heuristics are the same in term of specificity. There are ones that give very general and ambiguous instruction, while the others have more specific procedures that we as problem solvers would like to follow. For example, heuristic “represent you problem differently” only gives us a very general direction to what we should do, where as heuristic “draw a diagram” tells how we can represent our problem, visually. Heuristic “draw a histogram” on the other hand gives a much more specific instruction than the previous two. Representation Simplification Pathway Bring in solution P R O B L E M S O L U T I O N To follow this heuristic “draw a histogram”, we will need to know first the procedures in which we can draw a histogram, whereas to follow the heuristic “draw a diagram” we can invent our own diagrams and the rules or procedures in which we can manipulate them; here we have the freedom to choose and be creative. Of course, we can still end using the histogram, since it might be the best representation for our problems. Here we can construct hierarchy of heuristics according to their specificity. We propose to put the four “general heuristics” from the model above on top of the hierarchy. Using the example in the previous paragraph, we have Figure 2. We should note that Figure 2 is not an exhaustive hierarchy for “representations”, we can still add in more representation into the hierarchy, such as “manipulative” into the second level, “pie chart” into the third level, and so on. Here we are just trying to get a rough idea of how a hierarchy of heuristics might look like. Since the number of heuristics are only limited by our creativity and imagination, it is not possible to construct a hierarchy that contain all possible heuristics.



Figure 2: An example of hierarchy of heuristics

Here we need to clarify first that diagram, symbol or histogram, matrix themselves are not heuristics, but “use diagram”, “use equation” and “draw table” are heuristics. Representations themselves are not heuristics, however suggestions to use representations are. Of course Figure 2 is only part of the whole hierarchy of heuristics for representations, and we can have similar hierarchy for “simplification”, “pathway”, and “bring in solution”. Heuristics on the top of the hierarchy are just very basic and general ideas that can be applied to most problems. These ideas can be further broken downward to make them more specific, making them easier to follow and apply to problems. However by doing so, we have restricted the applicability of the heuristics to only a specific few types of problems.

Heuristics Maths with specific procedures are usually less applicable than those with fewer procedures. Besides that, specific heuristics require less of problem solvers’ interpretation and intuition or creativity. As we can see in Figure 2, the “heuristics” at the bottom of the General Specific Representation Diagram Symbol Histogram Bar chart Matrix Equation Table hierarchy are pointing us to topics that we learn in mathematics lessons that come with a lot of procedures and rules governing how to create and manipulate them. After all, we can see mathematics as a big collection of tools or “representations” in which we use to solve problems. 

Thursday, 26 March 2015

Problem-solving Heuristics

Apply logic to solve puzzles – that’s all it is. And there’s a systematic science to it.

Most children love activity books. This proves their innate need to be challenged and mentally stimulated. Maths puzzles tap into this instinctive desire to stretch children’s minds. 

Challenging Maths questions challenge them to find and apply faster, more creative solutions. This trains them in higher-order thinking and decision-making skills on top of subject knowledge.

Now, don’t we all apply these skills at home, at work and at play? Therefore, heuristics practically take children beyond school, right through their lives.

Heuristics in PSLE Maths 

More than half of PSLE Maths marks go to heuristics-related questions.

Approximately 55% of PSLE Maths marks are dedicated to long, open-ended questions that necessitate problem-solving. Several are routine questions, easily solved using the four basic operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Many are non-routine questions, requiring the four basic operations AND problem-solving heuristics.

The Ministry of Education has identified 11 heuristics for primary-level Maths, and two more for secondary-level Maths.


1. Use Diagrams / Models
2. Act it Out
3. Use Before & After
4. Use Systematic Listing
5. Look for Patterns
6. Work Backwards
7. Use Guess & Check
8. Simplify the Problem
9. Make Supposition
10. Solve Part of the Problem
11. Paraphrase the Problem
12. Think of a Related Problem
13. Use Equation
Source: Ministry of Education of Singapore (2007). Mathematical Syllabus Primary. Singapore: Curriculum Planning and Development Division.
Opening Hearts & Minds
  • Accertation
    We teach students problem-solving heuristics. Students simply add this new information (heuristics) into their existing mindset.
  • Tunning
    We guide students in heuristics application. Students begin to realise the limitations of their existing mindset. They begin to modify their existing mindset to incorporate heuristics.
  • Restructuring
    We expose students to the variety of challenging Maths problems that necessitates heuristics application. Students begin to address the inconsistencies between their existing mindset and heuristics. They begin to recreate their existing mindset to feature heuristics.
Habituating the Processhttp://www.eimaths.com
  • Understanding the problem
    Students will be trained to look for, visualise, organise and connect information. They will also develop Maths language proficiency.
  • Choose an appropriate heuristics
    Students will learn how to select, and combine where necessary, the most appropriate heuristics for different problems.
  • Perform the chosen heuristics
    Students will develop computational skills, geometrical skills and logical reasoning.
  • Reflect
    Finally, students will be trained to check their solutions, to improve on the methods used, to seek alternative solutions, and to extend the methods to other problems.
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Sunday, 22 March 2015

Basic Concept Maths

For students to understand and work with formal mathematical concepts successfully, they must understand the concepts of classification, conservation, seriation, ordering and one-to-one correspondence. Students must first work with and understand these concepts on the basis of quality (e.g., attributes such as shape, size, weight) before moving on to their application to general quantity (e.g., attributes such as many, few, none) and then on to number (e.g., attributes such as "fiveness", 100=10x10, 4+1=1+4.
In order for students to develop their innate number sense, and a working knowledge of the above concepts, they must have a great variety of interactions with their environment, exploring and manipulating, comparing, arranging and rearranging real objects and sets of objects. Many of these types of interactions and experiences occur incidentally for sighted children, but the blind child is at great risk for missing valuable and relevant incidental information. Therefore, it is critical that teachers and parents provide both structured and informal opportunities to handle and explore, note likenesses and differences, match, group and classify, order, and experience other relationships with real objects to prepare them for understanding the same relationships with numbers.
One of the earliest concepts to be developed is that of classification.



Classification involves discrimination, matching, and grouping or categorizing according to attributes and attribute values. A sampling of these attributes and attribute values at the quality level follows:
  • Shape (square, circle, triangle, rectangle)
  • Size (large, small, big, little)
  • Weight (heavy, light)
  • Length (short, long)
  • Width (wide, narrow, thick, thin)
  • Height (tall, short)
At the quantity level, these attributes would involve general number concepts (e.g., many, few, more, less, none), and later, more specific number values (e.g., sets of 2, sets of 10, sets of values greater than 2).
The development of classification concepts involves several sequential stages:
  1. discriminating between same and different (note: if a child has difficulty with the dichotomy of same/different, the dichotomy of same/not same may be more effective to begin with); attention should be called to the critical features of objects and their attributes;
  2. matching, grouping and categorizing according to specific criteria; and
  3. classifying according to a variety of dimensions.
To promote the development of classification concepts, the teachers can:
  • Begin working on simple discrimination and matching with objects that are familiar to the child and that occur naturally in his or her world (e.g., shoes, toothbrush, squeeze toys, blocks, etc.), then move on to noting and analyzing specific attributes (e.g., shape, size); later, those specific attributes can be applied to naturally occurring objects in the environment (e.g., circle shape of a plate).
  • Provide numerous opportunities for the child to handle and explore objects, note their critical features or attributes of shape, size, position in space, length, etc.
  • Provide many opportunities for the child to match objects, and build groupings or sets of objects on the basis of specific attributes.
  • Follow a logical or Piagetian sequence with regard to matching, grouping or categorizing, and later classifying: start with a single criteria or attribute by which to discriminate or group (e.g., shape/circle), change to a different criteria (e.g., small/large), progress to two attributes simultaneously (e.g., small circle), add additional attributes (e.g., small thin circle), and finally discriminate according to attributes NOT present (e.g., item that is not round, not small).
Another basic concept maths that children must understand is that of seriation, or ordering objects, then quantities, and eventually numbers, according to specific given criteria. As with the concept of classification, the child must begin working in this area with real objects on the basis of quality (e.g., ordering family members' shoes or belts according to attributes such as length). Only then will the child be able to apply the concept to quantity (e.g., ordering jars of coins or chains of keys–one having many, one having several, one having few and one having one or none), and later to number (e.g., ordering the numerals 2,10, 3, 5). The concepts of classification and seriation can be taught in conjunction with each other very effectively. For example, after the child can match and sort according to size, he or she can work on ordering from largest to smallest.

In addition to the understanding of the concepts of classification and seriation, the child must develop an understanding of conservation-knowing that a given amount remains the same though its appearance may change. Also, as with classification and seriation, the concept of conservation must be developed first with real objects (e.g., a bowl of cake mix is the same amount as when it is divided into 12 cup cakes). This must be understood before a child can be expected to understand the "partners" that make up numbers (10=5+5, 10=7+3, 10=6+4), units of measurement and money (a nickel is the same amount as five pennies), fractions (one whole is the same amount as two halves or four quarters) or the associative principle (7x3 equals the same as 3x7).
In addition to the concepts of classification, seriation, and conservation, children need to understand basic spatial and positional concepts. For example, the concepts of top, bottom, around, middle, center, corner, line, straight, curved, next to, beside, are very relevant to basic mathematical understanding. Later, concepts such as diagonal, parallel, perpendicular, intersecting, angles, and rotating will be relevant. Positional ordering concepts are also critical for sorting, for seriation, and for working with sets; these include concepts such as first, second, third, next, last, before, and after. However, these concepts require basic counting ability.
When teaching any of these basic concepts, it is important to start with real three dimensional objects, progressing to two dimensional shapes or diagrams and finally to more symbolic representations. It is also advantageous to have students develop the ability to express their discriminations in complete sentences (e.g., "These are the same because they are both square," or "This is the longest belt.") because doing so helps them to focus their attention on the concept rather than simply naming a descriptor.

Activities for teaching basic concepts

  • Involve children in daily living activities around the home or classroom. For example, helping to put silverware away in a divided tray with a sample in each section provides practice in matching, sorting and categorizing; helping to sort different sizes of towels or different items of clothing provides additional practice with these concepts.
  • Give children numerous opportunities to use everyday items for matching and categorizing: eating utensils, grooming tools, foods, and toys for function; shoes and shoelaces for matching by size or length.
  • To work on seriation, have children arrange boots belonging to family or class members from smallest to largest size; boots could also be arranged by height.
  • The same type of activity could be carried out with other personal items such as belts of different lengths, books of different thicknesses, milk cartons of different sizes, or later with Unifix towers or Cuisenaire blocks. Students should not only identify the "extremes" of a series (e.g., longest or shortest), but also the "next shorter".
  • Having family members or class members line up according to height can also help to facilitate understanding of seriation.
  • Provide chances for children to work with the concept of conservation: give them a ball of clay and let them divide it into smaller amounts as they wish, and then combine the smaller shapes to demonstrate the constancy of amount.
  • Using a sorting tray, place a variety of small items (buttons, paper clips, keys) in the larger section; to categorize, place one of each type of item in each of the smaller sections of the tray and have the child match and sort the remaining items; to classify, have the child form his or her own groups without providing a model. This activity could also be done using attribute blocks.
  • Have children fold stiff fabric and paper to make different shapes. Squares can be folded to make triangles or smaller squares. Later, origami can be used to facilitate understanding of geometry.
  • Children can explore shapes and size by building with Legos and Unifix blocks; they can also work with conservation by making a variety of different groupings from a given number of blocks.
  • Have children copy simple shapes on geoboards; later they can make their own shapes based on names or clues such as "four corners", etc.
  • Provide children with opportunities to explore and compare the three-dimensional shapes from Essential Geometric Forms which can be gotten from the American Printing House for the Blind.
  • Have children walk, hop, run, jump through an obstacle course made from large shapes on frames, available from several children's catalogs, or arranged from items in the natural environment (e.g., jump 3 times in the circle, hop through the square, step in and out of the triangle).
  • Use shapes, sizes, orders, patterns, planes, and eventually numbers in the real life environment (classroom, home) to teach concepts (e.g., compare the size of books to each other and to the size of tables, use corners of rooms to demonstrate angles, etc.).
  • To practice positional ordering, have a student line up the rest of the children in a group, and then identify each as first, second, third, . . . last. Also have the student identify which child is before or after a particular individual, which one is next, etc. Children can also do the same activity by arranging toy cars or other manipulatives.
  • Make a mathematical "pattern block" to enable students to build shapes and patterns with manipulatives that stay in place. To make the pattern block, drill ten or twelve evenly spaced holes into a long block (22 inches x 3 inches) such as the ones found in kindergarten block centers. Hammer thin wooden dowels or glue pieces of thick stranded wire into the holes, leaving about 2 inches; protruding up out of the block.
  • Assemble a collection of small objects that slide easily over the dowels or wires (e.g., beads of various sizes/shapes, washers, straws, plastic Unifix cubes, large paperclips, uncooked pasta, small pretzels). Students slide objects over the dowels in a left to right sequence to make a pattern (cube, cube, pretzel, cube, cube, pretzel, etc). The teacher can also start a pattern and have the student finish it. This device can also be used to teach ordinal number positions such as first, second, next, last.
  • Use magnet boards or felt boards for children to match shapes, size, position, order, and patterns; later, children can match numbers or form simple number statements to accompany the arrangement of manipulatives.
The above described activities can be used to good advantage in helping young severely visually disabled children to lay the groundwork for understanding the fundamental concepts underlying the study of mathematics.

Saturday, 21 March 2015

Don’t Teach Math, Coach It

PEOPLE ask me all the time how they can get their kids excited about math. That ought to be a softball for me, because I teach math for a living. I wake up excited about math.

But it’s not that simple. With the college students I teach, it’s a straightforward transaction. They’re paying me to teach them math, and my job is to cajole or incentivize them into doing the work that’s necessary to learn the subject, whether they feel like it or not.

It’s a different story with your own children. None of us want to be Leo Wiener. Yes, Wiener helped shape his son, Norbert, into a child prodigy who got a Ph.D. at Harvard at 18, and who later became a groundbreaking mathematician. But this was how Norbert recalled the process:

“He would begin the discussion in an easy, conversational tone. This lasted exactly until I made the first mathematical mistake. Then the gentle and loving father was replaced by the avenger of the blood. ... Father was raging, I was weeping, and my mother did her best to defend me, although hers was a losing battle.”



No parents want this story told in their child’s memoirs. But how can we encourage kids in a difficult task like math without doing so in a way they’ll come to resent?

I found an answer in something my 8-year-old son, C. J., likes even better than math: baseball. Let me be clear here. My level of skill at baseball — actually, with every kind of ball — is pretty much the opposite of my mastery of math. I’ve reached 40 and I still throw in the way that we used to call, before they started showing college softball on TV, “like a girl.”

But C. J. is a baseball fanatic. He lives and dies with the Milwaukee Brewers and he’s pretty set on being one of them when he grows up. He plays Little League with a fierce concentration I seldom see at home. And I’ve learned a lot about what kind of math parent I want to be from an unexpected source — his coaches.

Baseball is a game. And math, for kids, is a game, too. Everything for them is a game. That’s the great thing about being a kid. In Little League, you play hard and you play to win, but it doesn’t actually matter who wins. And good coaches get this. They don’t get mad and they don’t throw you off the team. They don’t tell you that you stink at baseball, even if you do — they tell you what you need to do to get better, which everybody can do.

What does it mean to coach math instead of teaching it? For C. J., it means I give him a “mystery number” to think about before bed. “I’m thinking of a mystery number, and when I multiply it by 2 and add 7, I get 29; what’s the mystery number?” And already you’re doing not just arithmetic but algebra.

For his little sister, who’s 4, that’s too formal. But say we’re at the grocery store and we need four cans of soup and she brings me two, and I say, “So we need three more, right?” and she says, “No, Daddy!” That’s really funny when you’re 4. It’s a game, and it’s math.

Lots of games are math. There are the classics you know about: chess, which builds the ability to follow a series of logical steps; Monopoly, which demands basic arithmetic and probabilistic reasoning; and Rubik’s Cube, which is fundamentally an exercise in geometry and group theory.

I have fond memories my 4th and 6th grade elementary school teacher, Miss Marks, talking our class out to the school yard one day to play...

But there are new classics, too, that weren’t around when you were a kid: Rush Hour, a board game about search algorithms; Set, a study in higher-dimensional geometry in the form of a viciously competitive card game; and DragonBox, an app for phone or tablet that teaches the formalisms of algebra. Every one of these games shows kids mathematical ideas in a spirit of play, which is a big and often hidden part of the true spirit of math.

These games are difficult, but also, for many kids, kind of addictive. Which means they also teach sitzfleisch, the ability to focus on a complicated skill for the length of time it takes to master it. Math needs that. (Baseball does, too.) It fits with the research of the psychologist Carol Dweck, which suggests that mentors should emphasize effort over native ability. We can’t really teach kids to do things; we can only teach them to practice things.

There are many things we’d like to coach our kids to do. And we can’t help playing favorites to some extent. I’ll admit, I’d rather C. J. aimed to be a mathematician than a shortstop. I tried to open his eyes to some more realistic careers that could still satisfy his hunger for the major leagues. “You know,” I told him, “you really like math, and all the teams now have people who work for them analyzing the players’ statistics. You’d probably enjoy that!”

At this suggestion he became agreeably eager. “Daddy, that’s a really good idea,” he said. “Because almost all major league players have to retire by the time they’re 40 — so then I could get a job analyzing the statistics!”

Well, I tried.

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Wednesday, 18 March 2015

Solve math problem using free online tutors

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Friday, 13 March 2015

Math Learning Made Easy With The Following Tips!



Math is a subject that raises your eyebrows with its strengths and challenges. It could be fun or bore- the way you look at Math doing. Let us see how Math skills could improve your life style as such and what measures you have to incorporate to improve the Math skills of your kids or others.
Math- the lifeline for life activities

Math is an important aspect of life. Without the fundamental skills of Math, you are nowhere in the world. Basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and deduction are essential for everyday activity in your life. You need Math to improve your accounting skills and manage your personal finance with efficiency. Without Math, you have no place for Engineering, Finance, Marketing or any skill related job in your life. Since Math skills are elementary for Art and Architecture, you could make your home more beautiful with Math precision. Be it cooking or any real time activity, Math plays a major role in making your personal life function with perfection and accuracy.

So, Math learning is an important aspect in education, career and life. If so, how to make it easy, fun and interesting? Here are:

Some tips to teach Math to kids

€ Use Math flash cards to make the kids follow basic Arithmetic skills in Addition and Subtraction
€ Cut out paper figures in various colors to teach basic pattern of Geometry
€ Search for online Math fun games to make Math learning a mind-blowing activity. You can take recourse to Math tutoring online services for this practice as well
€ Ask the kids to help you in cooking and give them a chance to work with real measurements
€ Same way make them work with tools to find out actual measurements

Tips for elder students

€ Do not neglect your failures in Math. Go through them and check out your weak areas like where you go wrong, which step you falter, which concept you are not able to concentrate and so on
€ Don't develop a negative attitude towards Math with the feeling that you are not born for it- not so. Everything comes by practice and you are no exception
€ Try to understand the fact that you cannot skip concepts to do Math. You have to learn Concept Maths in a particular order, since the concepts are built upon one another. Algebra skills are essential for Calculus and Pre Algebra skills are needed for Algebra 1 and 2. Basic Arithmetic is a definite helping factor to enter Pre Algebra- the chain goes like this and you are to follow the chain to reach the endpoint. Hence the importance of seeking every basic concept clarity in Math to attain perfect skills.

€ Write down the problems repeatedly to get into the essence of the problem. If Algebra poses problems, get proper assistance through Algebra tutoring to make your skills strong in the area.
€ Math homework could be a head ache for a lot of students who negate Math doing on this ground. Get good online homework help to wipe out your fear in doing Math homework.