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Advice to my students sitting for PSLE Mathematics
Try to follow these guidelines: - 1-mark question to be done within 1minute, 2-mark question within 2 mins, so as to eke out time for 3-mark and above questions - Apply RSVP for questions involving geometry and diagrams/tables/graphs/piecharts - Draw models or do story-boarding when encountering word problems with fraction, ratio, percentage
Thursday, July 23, 2026
P5 order of operations
Most people get this wrong on the first try.
72 ÷ (8 + 4) × 6 − 9
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Why is it so?
One reason is based on the misconception that multiplication has higher ranking than division.
Another is when people have only a partial understanding of order of operations. While they know that / and x have the same rank, and ought to operate from left to right, they are nevertheless affected by a phenomenon I coined as “the luring of numbers”: given that 12x6=72, and 72/72 will “conveniently” yield 1 for the result of the first 4 numbers (in turn resulting in a wrong final answer of -8) , when it ought to be 36 (where final answer should be 27)
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Sec3 Sec4 Geometry (cyclic quad and angle at centre = 2x angle at circumference)
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