TT- Ryan’s Report Card

This week I received Ryan’s work file and his report card. I was presently surprised to hear that he has progressed a lot in school. He is now able to write in both English and Chinese independently!!

His Chinese writing book

English Alphabet Writing sheets

I think it is time I started him on Japanese since he seems to be coping fine with both English and Mandarin.

June 17, 2008

Sakamoto Method

Dominique Recommendations maths, Sakamato method

Last week I wrote a post about Abacus. This week I am reviewing another Maths method that is for more advance and complicated as compared to Abacus. This method is more relevant for Singapore Primary Maths as it teaches the child the concepts of how to interpret the questions and breaking it down into smaller and more manageable steps which are easier to solve.

Dr. H. Sakamoto the founder of the method bases his method on 3 simple steps

Grasping the limitation ( Understanding the data in a systematic way through analysis and tabulation)
Diagram ( drawing a pictorial representation of the variables in question simplifies and provides the solution easily)
[This is already currently being taught in all primary/elementary schools]
Writing (providing a systematic way of writing numerical equations to derive at the given answer)
[Also already currently being taught in all primary/elementary schools]

Certain schools in Singapore , like Poi Ching a top notch school in my district, implemented this method as an enrichment class for their P4 students in 2007.

I personally feel that his method is very comprehensive and will definitely aid a student in scoring and excelling in mathematics