Black, White and a tinge of Grey - Unexplained Point of Relaxation
Inspired by Eugene Chew to do this post:
Before I give a quick review on this article, let me show you the question:
Anselm bought some chocolates and stupidly gave half of it to Wee Kiat. Wee Kiat bought some sweets and reluctantly gave half of it to Anselm. Anselm ate 12 sweets like a glutton and Wee Kiat ate 18 chocolates for the sake of it. The ratio of Anselm’s sweets to chocolates became 1:7 and the ratio of Wee Kiat’s sweets to chocolates became 1:4. How many sweets did Wee Kiat buy?
This is the question that apparently stumped both primary school leavers and Mathematics teachers. The article above even mentioned that a teacher took 3 days to figure this question out. Fear not my friends, for Anselm will work out the question right now for you in just a day, after eating those disgusting sweets from Wee Kiat.
Of course, our favourite method would be to use algebra:
Alright as you can see I solved this question with relative ease, so I suppose there is NO WAY that a Mathematics teacher in primary school is unable to do so. Although I admit that I am already at JC Maths level and that this question can indeed be too hard for primry 6 kids, there is only one explanation: the Maths teachers teaching them are retards.
Another thing is that parents have called in to say that the questions, especially this sweets and chocolates question, present in this year's PSLE Maths paper are too hard for their children to handle. This makes me think in shame of the Maths standard of these parents, seriously. It is the wrong mindset seriously, as addressed by Nanyang Primary School's Principal.
She said that the PSLE is a phase whereby a primary school student's true ability is being measured, and is used as a means of ranking these students to prepare them for secondary school. When parents blame the school for the exceedingly hard questions set, they are instiling a wrong mindset for their own children. They may grow up and always shift the blame to others for their own mistakes instead of reflecting and evaluating them on their own.
However, if NYPS's principal is smart enough to say all these, how can we explain her craziness of hiring totally incapable Maths teachers? Ok I know I'm being a total asshole over here, but seriously if this is the Maths standard of current primary school students... I don't know what to say...
Just say that current JC or maybe secondary 4 students should consider themselves lucky that they have already gotten such a stronghold of algebra, to see these primary 6 noobs emerging from the examination hall after the PSLE Maths Paper with their faces filled with tears, mucus, snot...
OK fine! Haha I'm just saying.
Ok that's all for now. Looking forward to Friday to get back all my results. Will post them here and do some self-reflections. Hopefully I achieved AT LEAST 65 rank points, that's the minimum I will set for myself.
I posted at 7:00 PM
Before I give a quick review on this article, let me show you the question:
Anselm bought some chocolates and stupidly gave half of it to Wee Kiat. Wee Kiat bought some sweets and reluctantly gave half of it to Anselm. Anselm ate 12 sweets like a glutton and Wee Kiat ate 18 chocolates for the sake of it. The ratio of Anselm’s sweets to chocolates became 1:7 and the ratio of Wee Kiat’s sweets to chocolates became 1:4. How many sweets did Wee Kiat buy?
This is the question that apparently stumped both primary school leavers and Mathematics teachers. The article above even mentioned that a teacher took 3 days to figure this question out. Fear not my friends, for Anselm will work out the question right now for you in just a day, after eating those disgusting sweets from Wee Kiat.
Of course, our favourite method would be to use algebra:
Alright as you can see I solved this question with relative ease, so I suppose there is NO WAY that a Mathematics teacher in primary school is unable to do so. Although I admit that I am already at JC Maths level and that this question can indeed be too hard for primry 6 kids, there is only one explanation: the Maths teachers teaching them are retards.
Another thing is that parents have called in to say that the questions, especially this sweets and chocolates question, present in this year's PSLE Maths paper are too hard for their children to handle. This makes me think in shame of the Maths standard of these parents, seriously. It is the wrong mindset seriously, as addressed by Nanyang Primary School's Principal.
She said that the PSLE is a phase whereby a primary school student's true ability is being measured, and is used as a means of ranking these students to prepare them for secondary school. When parents blame the school for the exceedingly hard questions set, they are instiling a wrong mindset for their own children. They may grow up and always shift the blame to others for their own mistakes instead of reflecting and evaluating them on their own.
However, if NYPS's principal is smart enough to say all these, how can we explain her craziness of hiring totally incapable Maths teachers? Ok I know I'm being a total asshole over here, but seriously if this is the Maths standard of current primary school students... I don't know what to say...
Just say that current JC or maybe secondary 4 students should consider themselves lucky that they have already gotten such a stronghold of algebra, to see these primary 6 noobs emerging from the examination hall after the PSLE Maths Paper with their faces filled with tears, mucus, snot...
OK fine! Haha I'm just saying.
Ok that's all for now. Looking forward to Friday to get back all my results. Will post them here and do some self-reflections. Hopefully I achieved AT LEAST 65 rank points, that's the minimum I will set for myself.
I posted at 7:00 PM