Classes start soon.........

I wish I could say that holidays last forever but unfortunately they do not. So my holidays end officially the day after the May Day weekend.

I look forward to teaching Mathematics to young kids again. Bread Clip Mathematics makes it so easy to teach them number concepts.

My god-daughter mastered concepts up to 100, a few months of Primary One syllabus, in just an afternoon when she was six years old. This godma here who just turned 50 was brain-dead. She, however, clamoured for 'more games'. To her, Bread Clip Mathematics was not school or lessons. It was just games, games, games.

So games they shall be. Which is what real studying should be. Play and learn. Learn through play.

All my equipment is ready - as good classroom teachers do their preparations way in advance before their holidays begin. The mini-whiteboards are cleaned and ready too. So is the classroom.

Because it is so important to monitor the learning of Mathematics from the very beginning, no written homework is given until the child is at home with the concepts and hands-on activities.

Mathematics is not just numbers. Kids' inate love for learning and Mathematics is often killed by zealous teachers and mothers who start Mathematics learning - the wrong way round, via abstract 'methods'. Indeed, the children should be handling and seeing Mathematics at work first, not read or count Mathematics off a flat sheet of paper.

Requests have come in whether parents can learn along. I organise separate classes for parents too, so that they understand the principles behind successful learning in Mathematics. Sometimes the parents finally get what they learnt in Mathematics class..... some twenty years down the road.

Drop me an email if you are interested to catch up on learning Mathematics using Bread Clip Mathematics. It is so important for kids to start learning Mathematics the right way, so that they will love slogging for the subject as they grow up.

What Bread Clip Mathematics is about

Bread Clip Mathematics................

I grew the idea as my son grew from one level to another, from one topic to another.

All using bread clips.

The principles involved:
* Concrete-Pictorial-Abstract Approach
* Multiple Intelligences
* Social-learning Platform
* Meta-cognition - Thinking about your Thinking and Actions

Sounds like gibberish to you?
Well, even school leaders didn't catch it.

But my son did. And from one who couldn't tell what 'more than one' and 'one more than' meant to passing Standard Mathematics.......

And I taught my 6 year old god-daughter 3 terms of P1 Arithmetic.... in an hour. I was flat out, but she was enthusiastic and pining for more. To her, it was play.

And play it was to my Primary One class for a semester until I resigned and taught my own son. I heard those children suffered under the hands of another teacher who didn't understand what play therapy in Mathematics was all about.

Bread Clip Math??

If you have been told by your child's Primary School teacher that he probably will land up in the Foundation subjects and by a stroke of luck end up in the Normal Technical class at Secondary School on the 2nd PSLE attempt, read on!

Ever since I conceived on the 3rd try, I've been counting.... the years to conceiving, the months to my son's birth, the days to his birthdays!

And eversince  he was in school, we have been counting bread clips. All through Primary School and numerous Maths topics.

My son was condemned a failure by the school ..... at Primary Two. Threatened with expulsion by the then Vice-Principal. At K2, he could speak very well, memorise whole stories from readers that his buddy read to him. But not read. At Primary Two, he scored only 20-odd marks in Mathematics.

I did what most desperate and loving mothers would - resign from a well-paid career ....  and home-schooled him. Well, he finally passed Mathematics at the end-of-year P4 subject-based banding examination and scrapped through PSLE Mathematics with a C because I had to return to a job for our daily bread.

Since then, I never looked back at the lost steps on my career path. God has blessed me much .... sufficient for me to want to do more for the 20% of my fellow Singaporeans who have been told that they will never pass Mathematics.

History continues. My son built up resilience. At Secondary One, in a Normal Academic stream, he had a wonderful and teachable Mathematics teacher who learnt to cater to his special needs and propelled him to be in the top 15% and win an Edusave bursary...... from entry point at being among the bottom 15%.

Unfortunately, the teacher left early in the year for greener pasture..... and my son's results plummeted over the past two years.

Yes, I just threw in the towel again to help him regain the best that he can be at N levels....

When he is in school in the mornings, I have the time to do my own stuff.

Believe that your child can pass Mathematics!