What's for Decemebr?

Dear All,
Hope you have had a good break.

Please log on to your MConline to view some of the lessons assigned.

Remember to read, Read and READ during this holiday. Do not forget to do some VIA (Values in Education) by helping out at home in terms of tidying up your own space, cleaning the house, looking after the younger or elderly at home.

Plan your time well so that you have a fruitful holiday.

I will have my break from 1 Dec to 16 Dec. Once back, I will update you and check the MConline.

Love you,
Mrs Mak

Online exercise

Dear all,
Please log on to this link to access your online questions. Please be hardworking to try out the questions. Go to P5-4's blog and access the link for more questions.

As I will be busy preparing work for the school, I won't be able to go online with your people using the Today's meet. I will discuss the questions with you on Monday.

Please revise your work and remember to look through your Heuristic Booklet, secret recipe and Math ex book.

Love you,
Mrs Mak

Online exercise

Dear all,
Please log on to this link to try out some of the quuestions. Key in your Birth Cert no (eg. to1234567j) for your password  and userid .

Love you,
Mrs Mak

Answers for Practice 2B

Dear all,
Please check your answers for Practice 2B.

3.    15
4.     6
5.    I will mark
6.  $39
7.  96 cm
8.  55.64
9.  23
10a.   between 108 and 110
10c.   6cm
11.  420
12.  3 litres 168ml
13.  260
14a.    22
14b.    45
14c.      6
15.    1800
16.     44.20
17.     241.60
18.   1 : 26

Hope you have gotten most of the questions correctly.

Love you,
Mrs Mak

PSLE Marking Day 2

Dear all,
Hope that you have done your Worksheets and marked them.
Rememnber to spend your time wisely.

Ratio
1.    1/3
2.    5/9
3.     3
4.     8
5.     7
6.    2: 3
7.    36
8.     7    (think there is an error in the question. Change 39 beads to 49 beads)
9.   200
10.  18
11.   80
12.   5 : 11
13.   125
14.   3 : 19
15.   7 : 6 : 4
16.   200
17.   4 : 9
18.   1 : 3
19.   4/9
20.    24


Percentage

1.    37.5
2.     34
3.     4.5
4.     2.25
5.     252
6.     18
7.     75
8.     6
9.    39
10.   247.20
11.  680
12.    2200
13.   150
14.   240
15.   108
16.     40
17.   50
18.   70
19.   1800
20.   75

Once done, click on the link to access more questions to solve.

Reminder - Please work out the sums for PSLE Day 1 by clicking on the link. Thus far, only Ke Sin, Hui Xuan and Pauline have submitted their answers.


Love you,
Mrs Mak

Homework for PSLE Marking Days

Dear boys & girls in P5-1

Here are your homework for the next 4 days:

1) SA2 Practice Paper (Booklet A & B)
2) one newspaper article per day (total of at least 4) - tell me about the article you have chosen & your opinion of the chosen article
3) composition correction (draft 2 or 3) - if you still owe me

On the practice paper, please take a lot of care in doing them. I would like to see a marked improvement in comprehension OE please. Remember the skills you have been taught in class. Do me proud please...

In the meantime, do spend your time gainfully and purposefully.  Read 30 minutes a day! (Any books & even news articles)

Love
Mrs Lau

PSLE Marking Day 1 HW

Dear all,
Please check your answer for Fractions (2) and mark yoru answers.

Fractions (2)
1. 2 1/2
2. 6/25
3. 1/12
4. 6
5. 17
6. 2 3/4
7. 6
8. 1/16
9. 5 3/5
10. 36
11. 140 min
12. 10
13. 0.75
14. 3/4
15. 21
16. 25
17. 420
18. $150
19. 40
20. $36

Go to P5-4's blog to access the questions to work on.

Love you,
Mrs Mak

LRD Answer

Dear all,
Please check your LRD answers:

Answers to Sept 25 LRD

Booklet A

Section A

Q1. 4   Q2. 3   Q3. 3   Q4. 1   Q5. 2

Section B

Q6. 1   Q7. 2   Q8. 3   Q9. 3   Q10. 4 Q11. 3 Q12. 4

Section C

Q13. 3 Q14. 1 Q15. 4

Section D

Q16. 2 Q17. 1 Q18. 4 Q19. 3 Q20. 2

Section E

Q21. 3 Q22. 3 Q23. 2 Q24. 2 Q25. 1

Section F

Q26. 1 Q27. 1 Q28. 3 Q29. 1 Q30. 3

Booklet B

Section A

Q31. N            Q32. D            Q33. B            Q34. F Q35. K            Q36. L Q37. Q            Q38. P Q39. E Q40. G

Section B

Q41. confidently         Q42. Much      Q43. conference          Q44. were       Q45. their        Q46. develop

Q47. designed Q48. alternative          Q49. guides     Q50. Judgment

Section C

Q51. minds     Q52. incident  Q53. ride                     Q54. around    Q55. too                      Q56. place

Q57. keep        Q58. provides Q59. form       Q60. recovered

Section E

Q61. It is bus captain.

Q62. There is a need to recruit bus drivers to meet the demands of a new bus improvement plan that will mean 14 new routes.

Q63. 960 drivers are expected to be hired.

Q64. It refers to SBS Transit and SMRT.

Q65. They hold roadshows at bus interchanges and MRT stations and place advertisements in newspapers and on buses and trains.

Q66. They are becoming better qualified with higher career aspirations.

Q67. They feel that drivers from China have poor English and service skills and are unfamiliar with local roads.

Q68. Drivers from China have to go through an extra 21 days of training to familiarise them with driving conditions in Singapore and help them learn basic conversational English.

Q69.  The existing bus drivers are from Singapore, Malaysia and China.

Q70. There will be more frequent services which means shorter waiting time.

Love you,
Mrs Lau

Maths Self- directed Learning

Dear all,

Log on o mcoline to view the tutorials and exercises on Angles, Properties of Triangles and Greometrical Construction of Triangles.

Do make good use of your time on Friday to revise your work, get all corrections done.

Do remember to READ at least an article from the newspaper if you have the papers, otherwise, read your story book.

Do log on to P5-4's blog to read their Compositions and P5-6's blog to read about theMRT ride.

Love you,
Mrs Mak

Class Publication

Dear all in P5-1,

Please read Kristy's composition first.
Then, you wll read Charles' composition.

Assignment:
I would like you to think about how you can make improvement to Charles' writing. He has a good story line but we can do a lot more to spice up the story.

Can you think through and you can post your suggestion in our class blog.
We will have a discussion as a class. Do put on your thinking hat.

Thank you.

Love,
Mrs Lau

_______ Kristie's Composition ___________

“Wosh!” I was woken up with a start. I thought it could be mom or dad who had made the noise. They could be awake. It was in the middle of the night!

Then, "Crush!" I had to find out what had happened.

I walked out of my room and saw that my parents’ bedroom door was still shut.  Quickly, I opened their bedroom door. They were sound asleep. I had to wake them up. We need to find out what had caused the crushing sound!

I woke Mom up. "What's wrong?" asked Mom drowsily. I told mom about the noise. I began to feel my heart pounding quickly. My throat was so tight and I could not swallow my spit. I thought that someone could be in our house. The thought terrified me. Mom did not believe me and said that I had imagined the sound.  She wanted to go back to sleep.  I wanted Mom and Dad to investigate what had caused the noise.

Mom had no choice but to wake Dad up too.  Suddenly, “Crush!” again.  Dad was startled to and got out of bed immediately. Dad took a torch with him as he walked out of the bedroom very quietly. Mom and I followed him.

When we walked down the stairs, the lounge was totally dark. I was so frightened that I could not breathe, I felt suffocated in the dark.

"What's wrong, dear?" Mom asked. "Crush!" The sound again! This time it was louder than before. Mom, Dad and I walked into the living room where my new pet Little Ail was. Little Ail was nowhere to be found.

"Where is Little Ail?" I asked Mom. I was worried. I wondered what had happened to Little Ail.  I felt like crying. "Come on, now is not the time to look for Little Ail. We have to find out who is in the kitchen?" said Dad. He walked towards the kitchen. Mom and I followed.

When we reached the kitchen, the kitchen door was opened. Mom was puzzled. She remembered that she had closed the kitchen door before going to bed. Dad went into the kitchen while mom and I waited outside.  We peeped inside. Dad told me to get ready to call the police if there was a burglar in the house.

Dad switched on the lights. We were all surprised!  Little Ail was inside the kitchen! Little Ail must be searching for food. The kitchen was in a mess. Oh dear! I had forgotten to feed Little Ail earlier!

"Ha! Ha! It was only Little Ail," Dad laughed.

I gave Little Ail a bowl filled with cat food. Quickly, Little Ail ate up all her food in the shortest time. She must be starving. I felt terrible to have forgotten to feed her. Later, I carried Little Ail to her bed and she fell asleep almost instantly. I learnt a lesson that night. I learnt that I must remember to feed Little Ail every day. I must be a responsible pet owner if I want to keep a pet.

Finally, we all went back to bed. I felt really exhausted after all the excitement in the middle of the night.

Kristie Tan, P5-1

_________ Charles' Composition ____________

It was a dark night. Jane and her parents were watching television and when the television program ended, they went to bed.

While Jane was sleeping, she was woken up by a noise. She suspected that the noise could be coming from the kitchen. It sounded like a spoon or a fork had dropped on the floor.

“How could something drop in the middle of the night? Could it be a burglar in the house?” Jane was worried. Quickly, she went to her parents’ room. She woke them up.

Jane’s father grabbed a torch and they rushed to the kitchen immediately to investigate. In the kitchen, the only thing they saw was a cat. They were puzzled. How did the cat get into the house? Upon checking the cat’s collar, they saw a name “Lily” printed on the collar. They knew that the cat belonged to their neighbor. They also recalled noticing some posters pasted on the walls at the void deck that day. Their neighbor had lost their pet cat, Lily and had appealed to their neighbours for help.

Jane took a small box and put a cloth in it. She gave Lily some milk. After feeding the cat, she put it into the box. They would return the cat to their neighbour the next day. The next morning, Jane’s dad returned the cat to their neighbor. Their neighbor was so grateful and thanked them profusely. Jane learned that if you find something you must return it to its rightful owner.  

Charles Lim

P5-1    

Daily Bread 9

Dear all,
Go to P5-4's blog to access your daily bread.


Love you,
Mrs Mak

Practice Paper answer

Dear all,
Check your answer for Practice 5a:

(1)      3
(2)      4
(3)      2
(4)     1
(5)     4
(6)     4
(7)     3
(8)     4
(9)     3
(10)   4
(11)    1
(12)    2
(13)    3
(14)     3
(15)     3
(16)    4
(17)    2
(18)   3
(19)   2
(20)   4
(21)    103
(22)   83
(23a)     3/14
(23b)    5/18
(24)     60
(25)     30
(26)    4/9
(27)    2/3
(28)    80
(29)   $6
(30)   240

How's your Practice 4a? Did you get most of them correct?
Log on to your mconline for some assignments.

Love you,
Mrs Mak

Greetings from Mrs Lau & English Holiday Homework

Dear 5-1,

Greetings! Mrs Mak has very kindly invited me to the class blog.
I shall try my best to get use to the functions of the blog so that I can communicate with you.

For a start, let me remind you all the holiday assignment for English:-

(1) Read story book daily - at least 30 minutes a day
(2) Read newspapers - get yourself updated on what is happening in Singapore and elsewhere.
(3) Free Writing - In your journal, write daily (from Saturday 1 September to Saturday 8 September). Write about your thoughts (from your reading and on events in a day)
(4) Write about the book you are reading - in foolscap paper

I hope you can get your work done and at the same time have a good break this holiday.

Remember, reading is also a form of relaxation.

Love,
Mrs Lau

Holiday assignments

Dear all,

Have you done your Homework?
1. Practice Papers 4a, 5a
2. Angles WS Pg 1 and Pg 2
3. WB Pg 92- 94, Pg 96 - 98
4. Log on to Mconline to familiarise yourself with Angles


Check the answers for the worksheet and mark them accordingly. DO take a look at your mistakes if there are any.
The answers for the Practice Worksheet 4a are as follows:

(1)    2
(2)    1
(3)    3
(4)    2
(5)    1
(6)    2
(7)    2
(8)    4
(9)    1
(10)   2
(11)   3
(12)   3
(13)   3
(14)   2
(15)   1
(16)    2
(17)   4
(18)    2
(19)    1
(20)    1
(21a)   2.56
(21b)   4.709
(22)    $0.60
(23)    22
(24)    5.52
(25)    6
(26)   2176
(27)   450
(28)   skip
(29)   125
(30)     31

Check out Practice 5a tmr

Love you,
Mrs Mak


 

Revision for Mother Tongue and Science

Dear all,
Remember to revise the concepts found in your secret recipe, Maths Practice Papers and Maths WB.

Spend time on Friday and Monday to revise your Mother Tongue and Science. Though English Paper is over, you have to continue to revise and read your newspapers and story books.

To my Malay pupils, Selamat Hari Raya....

Aristotle - We are what we repeatedly do, excellence then is not an act, but a habit.

Love you all,
Mrs Mak

Daily Bread 8

Dear all,
As usual, go to P5-4's blog to get your daily bread.

Remember to check your answers to your practice paper from P5-4's blog as well.

Also, write your comments below o how you perform for your practice paper - Did you make any silly mistakes or you did not know how to do any question, etc..


Love you,
Mrs Mak

Daily Bread 7

Dear all,
Go to P5-4's blog to access their daily bread 5.

The answers to the homework today will be posted on the blog tomorrow in P5-4's blog.


Make good use of your time to revise for all the 3 subjects - Maths, MT and Science.

Eagles, the answers can be found in P5-4's blog. Make and check your answers.


Love you,
Mrs Mak

Daily Bread 6

Dear all,
Go to P5-4's blog to access your Daily Bread.

For your practice paper, complete it and the answer is as follows.

Q9a.  $825
Q9b.  $5002.25
Q10.  0.35 kg
Q11.  $2.70
Q12.  127
Q13.  4095
Q14.  28 litres 450 ml
Q15. 334
Q16ai) A
Q16aii)  $8
Q16b.  $21.20
Q17.  430
Q18.  304


 If you get any of them wrong, please look through and find out what is wrong.If given a second chance, can you solve them? Do not wait till I go through with you to spot your mistakes.

Remember what I said in class : Doing a lot will not help if you do not reflect and check what you don't know

If you are slow to understand the concept, you can make it up through your diligence and willingness to learn and improve.

If your are LAZY, there is nothing you can do except to change your attitude and that requires tremendous effort and determination. DO you have the STAR values of Self -discipline?

.

Love you,
Mrs Mak

Daily Bread 5

Dear all,

Go to P5-4's blog and work out the questions in their Daily Bread 3.

Please revise your work and make good use of the Supplementary Time wisely on your own.


Read your questions carefully and check the tenses and spelling diligently.

Do not be harsh on yourself by saying : I don't know". You know what I mean, don't you?

All the best for tomorrow's English Paper.

Love you,
Mrs Mak

Answers to Pratice Paper and WB

Dear all,
Please mark with your red pen and reflect on the mistakes.

Practice Paper

Q1.   $33.90
Q2.   3. 6 litres
Q3.  76
Q4. 128
Q5.  34
Q6.  561
Q7.  120
Q8.  4374
Q9a.  4825
Q9b.  $5002.25
Q10.  0.35 kg


WB Pg 181 - 183

Q1.    (1)
Q2.    (2)
Q3.    (4)
Q4.    (2)
Q5.    (3)
Q6.    (3)
Q7.    (3)
Q8.    (3)
Q9.    (4)
Q10.  (2)
Q11.  (1)
Q12.  (4)
Q13.  (3)
Q14.  (4)
Q15.  (1)
Q16.  (3)

Daily Bread 4.

1.  Do WB Pg 185, Pg 187, Pg 188
2. Practice Paper Q11 - Q14

Continue to persevere.....

Love you,
Mrs Mak

Preparing for CA2 - Daily Bread 3

Dear all,
For the Practice Paper, do Q1 - Q10. Check you answers on Friday.

For Maths WB, tear out Pg 181 - 194. Do Pg 181 - P183. Check your answers in Friday. Mark the answers.


Daily Bread 3
1. Meena is 36 years old now. Ben is 15 years younger than she is.  Renee’s age is 1/3 of the sum of Meena’s and Ben’s age. Find Renee’s age.

2.  The ratio of Michael’s savings to Nick’s savings was 12 : 5 at first. When Michael’s savings was decreased by  1/4, their total savings became $280. How much savings did Michael have originally?

3.  Mr Lim cuts a piece of wire of length 45 m into two pieces in the ratio     3 : 2. What is the
    length of the longer piece of wire?
 

4. At a funfair, the ratio of the number of adults to the number of children was     7 : 20. The ratio of the number of men to the number of women was 3 : 2. What was the ratio of the number of men to the number of children? 5. A box of greeting cards was shared equally among a group of 35 pupils. 5 of them gave all their cards to the rest of the pupils. As a result, the rest of the pupils received 2 more cards each. How many cards did each pupil receive at first? Let's continue to persevere and work hard to achieve good results... We will discuss the questions on Friday. Enjoy your National Day tomorrow. Love you, Mrs Mak

Preparing for CA2- Daily Bread 2

Dear all,

Administration Matters

WB Pg 79, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90
Percentage Supplementary WS Q1-5, Q7 - Q10, Q12, Q15
Eagles - Do also Q5, 6

Hand in all the work stated above.

What to bring tomorrow:
1. small bag,  pencil case, your materials for the collage (scissors and markers)

2. Homejoy given to you and the 3 questions that you have tried below.

3. Be in your RED T-shirt

Preparing for CA2 - Daily Bread 2
Try the questions:

1. Benson is 63 years younger than his grandfather.  In four years’ time, Benson’s grandfather will be 8 times as old as Benson.  How old is Benson now?

2.  The usual price of a television set was $1900.  Mr Lee was given a 15% discount. If the store charges 7% GST on the discounted price, how much did Mr Lee pay for the television set?

3.  The ratio of the length of a rectangle to its breadth is 9 : 5.  If the perimeter of the rectangle is 112 cm, find the area of the rectangle.


Counting down..... 3 working days.....


A nervous and worried Maths Teacher,
Mrs Mak

Preparing for CA2 - Daily Bread 1

Dear all,

Click on this form to work out the questions.

For the  Doves:

1.  1/4 of a whole number is 60.  What is the number?

2.  What fraction of 3 ℓ is 90 mℓ ?

3.  Express  3/7 as a decimal correct to 2 decimal places.

4.  During a sale, handkerchiefs are sold in sets of 3 for $1.65.  How much must Mandy pay for
      15 handkerchiefs during the sale?

For the Falcons and Eagles:

1.   The ratio of Tim, Alex and Carlo’s mass is 1 : 2 : 3.  If Alex is 12 kg heavier than Tim, what 
       is the total mass of the three boys?

2.  At a funfair, 35% of the people were adults and the rest were children.  If 300 people were
    at  the funfair, how many adults were there?

3.  If X : Y = 4 : 7 and Y : Z = 21 : 16, what is the ratio of X : Z?  Express your answer in the
      simplest form.


We have 11 working days to 23 August 2012. However, we have to take away8 August to 10 August (3 days), 16 August to 17 August (2 days) , 20 August (Hari Raya), 22 August (EL CA2), so we are left with 4 working days to CA2 Maths.

Are you prepared?

A very worried Maths Teacher,
Mrs Mak

 

Straits Times Article - Social Studies

Dear all,
Please read the article found on A40 Opinion from the main section - Fly the flag proudly for Singapore on National Day.
Answer the questions in the form.

We are celebrating National Day in the month of August. Do remind your parents to hang the flag.
Remember to tune in on Sunday.

Love you,
Mrs Mak

Preparing for CA2 - Maths

Dear all,
Work out these questions and write your solutions in the form.

Maths
For your homejoy on Friday, 3 August 2012
WB Pg 78 Q3, Q4
WB Pg 81 Q1
WB Pg 88 Q16, Q17
Practice Paper Q14, Q15, Q17, Q18

English
Read Straits Times on Saturday and Sunday. I will tell you what article to read.Tune in to Saturday's blog.

For the Eagles
Work out the answers to the following questions in your Maths exercise book. Copy the questions in your exercise book. Questions followed by answers.

1.There were 285 trees in Field A and 177 trees in Field B.  Some of the trees were transplanted from Field A to Field B until both fields have an equal number of trees. How many trees were transplanted from Field A to Field B?

2. Jieyun ran 7 1/4 rounds around the track.  Shafiq ran 2 1/3  more rounds than Jieyun.  How many rounds  did Shafiq run?

3. 1/9 of the fruits at a fruit stall were durians and the rest were mangosteens.  Find the total number of fruits at the fruit stall if there were 96 mangosteens.

4. Murali paid $192 for 3 belts and 3 pairs of jeans. Each pair of jeans cost thrice as much as a belt.  Calculate the difference in price between a belt and a pair of jeans.

5.   5/9 of the seats in a cinema were occupied by adults and the rest were occupied by children.  

     1/2  of the children were boys. There were 68 more adults than boys. Find the total number of people in

      the cinema.

6. Aneka saved  5/12 of her monthly salary, gave 1/5 of the remaining amount to her parents and spent the

     rest. If she gave $175 to her parents, what was Aneka’s monthly salary?

  Hope you will make good use of your time to revise for your coming examinations.

Love you,
Mrs Mak

Social Studies

Dear all,

Please look at Social Studies Workbook Pg 9.

Task 1
You are to design a poster in your social studies worksbbok to promote racial harmony among your classmates.
Be as creative as you can to entice your friends to participate in the activity.

Task 2
You are to find out who the Ministers are and which department they are in charge of . Have their pictures printed or you can find them in the newspapers. Find out their duties and responsibilities.

Task 3
Bring pictures (like what Ms Chua and Mr Yap shared on Friday morning) that you have fond memories on. We will share with the class next week.

Task 4
You are to bring a working thermometer, cap or hat , your Maths WB (Decimals, Measurement, Review 4 and Average - to put in my locker outside the staff room), snacks, poncho and most importantly,GOOD Behaviour for your NE show on Saturday, 21 July at 2pm.

Love you,
Mrs Mak

Today's meet

Dear Darlings,
Click on this link to access Today's meet.


Click on this link to access linoit.

Click on this link to work out the sums.

Clink on this link to learn from one another and give your comments in your class blog.

Love you,
Mrs Mak

Maths Question

Dear all,
Try to solve this question:
Ruth bought some buns and cakes for $42.30. A bun and a cake cost $1.60. She bought more buns than cakes. The cost of the extra number of buns was $3.90.How many cakes did she buy?

Key in your solution in this spreadsheet.

Love you,
Mrs Mak

Setting parallel questions

Dear all,
Set your parallel Questions using this link.

Love you,
Mrs Mak

Reflection

Dear all,
Please click on to this link to give your comments.

Love you,
Mrs Mak

Mconline

Dear all,
Please log on to your mconline to check on your assignment. Try out the questions first before we really start the topic on Decimals.

Love you,
Mrs Mak

P5 Camp @ Tanjung Leman

Dear 5-1

What a great camp!

I'm sure all of you had fun.

Let's bring back the wonderful memories!

With much love

Mrs Mak and Ms Lee

Holiday assignment

Dear all,
Please make good use of the holidays. 
Do the following sums ans key in your working in the form.

1. Jill bought a tin of chocolates with a mass of 1.25 kg. After she had eaten of the  

chocolates, the tin of chocolates had a mass of 950 g. Find the mass of the tin when it was empty.

2.  Jill bought a tin of chocolates with a mass of 1.575 kg. After she had eaten of  

   the chocolates, the tin of chocolates had a mass of 1225 g. Find the mass of the tin

   when it was empty.

 Love You,

Mrs Mak

Practice paper discussion

Dear all,
I have something to attend to and perhaps you people can start to discuss the questions first. Once I get back, I will join in.

Love you,
Mrs Mak

Practice Paper 2 Paper 1

Dear all,
Let's discuss the questions and hopefully you understand better after the discussion.


Regards,
Mrs Mak

SA1 Practice Paper Discussion

Dear all,
In view of the shortage of time, let's discuss the questions in the paper by clicking on the link.

Remember tio key in your name first.

Regards,
Mrs Mak

Area of triangle

Dear all,
Please log on to your mconline to do the tutorial on Area of triangles and the activities in  P5 Maths.

Regards,
Mrs Mak

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Fractions

Dear all,
Please try the  questions and key in your answers in the link.

Regards,
Mrs Mak

Social Studies

Dear all,
Read the article. Another article to read
Cheers,
Mrs Mak

Daily bread (2)

Dear all,
Please work out the questions.

1. The table below shows the parking rates charged at a carpark.

First Hour               $3
Every hour thereafter or part thereof     $1.50 per hour

If Mr Lee parked his car in this carprk from 2.45pm to 4pm, how much did he pay for the parking fee?

2. Juliana had a total of 75 pears and apples. She sold 10 pears and 15 apples. In the end, she had an equal number of pears and apples left. How many pears did Juliana have at first?

Cheers,
Mrs Mak

Daily Bread (1) - 29 Feb

Dear all,
Please try these questions on a piece of paper.

1. Use all the digits below to form the smallest 5-digit odd number.

2.  A 5-digit number when rounded off to the nearest thousand is 18 000. What is the largest possible number?

3.  A 4-digit number when rounded off to the nearest thousand is 5000.
(a) What is the smallest possible number?
(b) What is the greatest possible number?

4. Express 2.08 as a fraction in its simplest form.

5.  Express 3.05 as a fraction in its simplest form.

6.  I am thinking of a 4-digit number. The value of the digit 6 is 6000. The largest digit is in the ones place. The value of the digit 7 is 700. The digit 5 stands for 50. What is the number?

Regards,
Mrs Mak

Maths Questions

Dear all,
Work on the following sums again on a piece of foolscap paper. Draw your models.
Put your answer in my locker tomorrow morning.

1.  Jerome baked 125 more cookies than Lydia. If Lydia gave him 30 cookies, how many more cookies would Jerome have than Lydia?

2.  Lilian had some cards. After she gives away 16 cards, she has 24 cards left. What fraction of her cards has she left?

3. Andy has $60. He spent 2/5 of it on a toy. Ho much money did he spend?

4.  Tony had an equal number of chocolate cookies and walnut cookies. He sold 66 chocolate cookies. He had 4 times as many walnut cookies as chocolate cookies left. How many cookies did he have at first?

5. There are 11 488 students in Sunshine Primary School. There are 160 more students in West Coast Primary School. The number of students in North Point Primary School is half the total number of students in Sunshine Primary School and West Coast Primary School. How many students are there in North Point Primary School?

Regards,
Mrs Mak

Answer to Fraction : Problem Sums

Dear "STAR"pupils,
The answer to the worksheet:

1.  8kg
2.  96 buttons
3.  $600
4.  $104
5.  7kg
6.  1500ml
7.  6kg
8.  1.5kg or 1 1/2 kg

Love,
Mrs Mak

Heuristic - Guess and Check

Dear all,
I hope that the Guess and Check method you did today is one skill you have mastered.
Let's try the question below on a rough piece of paper ( It has to be a decent piece of paper.)

Mrs Lee bought 60 pens and pencils. A pencil cost $1.20 and a pen cost $1.50. She spent $84 on all the 60 pens and pencils. How many pens and how many pencils did she buy? 

Questions to ask yourself:
What is the guessing number?
What is the checking number?
How to make use of $1.20 and $1.50?
What details to put in my table?

Happy solving....

Love you,
Mrs Mak

Answer to the WS

Dear all,
Mark your answer for the fraction ws.

1.a.  7/5 = 1 2/5                                 2a  2/9                             3a.  3 1/9

b. 15/8 = 1 7/8                                    b. 1/2                               b.  4 2/5

c.  9/5 =1 4/5                                      c.  7/22                            c. 5 19/24

d. 50/9 = 5 5/9                                   d. 1 5/12                          d. 1 1/2

e.  66/12 = 5 1/2                                e.  4/5                              e.  4 37/72

f.  72/8 = 9                                        f. 7/8                                f.  4  1/70
   
                                                         g. 1 14/55                        g.  2  2/3


4a.  625g                                         5a.   7/12                            6.  2/3,  25/32,  7/8                  

  b.  60 cm                                         b.    9/20                          7.  1/2, 1/3, 1/7, 1/10

 c.  900ml                                          c.  16/25                          8.   21

 d. 750m                                             d.  8/25                           9.  22

 e.  20  min                                         e.  27/50                        10.  3/5

  f.  4600ml                                        f.  49/250                        11.  33/52

  g.  6785m                                        g.  12/25                         12.  1/3


Hope you have gotten all the questions correct.

Love you,
Mrs Mak

Creating Parallel Questions

Dear all,
Please go to P5-4's blog to create 2 questions based on Heuristic 8.
Instructions are written clearly in the question. Just "mouse"over the word "here" and the question will appear.

We shall see who will be the first to submit your question.

Love you,
Mrs Mak

Order of Operations

Dear all,
Do these sums and let's see who can get all the answers correct!

Love you,
Mrs Mak

Maths Questions from Maths WS Unit 1

Dear all,
Let's do some revision on the questions that we have problem understanding.

1.  The cost of a cap and a shirt was $27. Gerald bought 6 such caps, 4 such shirts and a pair of jeans for $200.The total cost of a pair of jeans and a cap was $74. Find the cost of a shirt.


2.  Eiana has three times as many stamps as Allen. Tricia has 16 stamps fewer than Allen. They have a total of 174 stamps. Find the total number of stamps Eiana must give away to Allen and Tricia so that all of them will have the same nunber of stamps.

Hint : Draw models
Step 1 : Read what information you are given

Step 2 : Think how you are going to draw the model. Would part whole model be a good choice or
             comparision model or both?

Step 3 : Plan how to organise the information given to you in your model.

Step 4 : Do the mathematical statements- which operations ( add, subtract, divide, multiply) to use.

Step 5 : Check your calculation, your models


Love you,
Mrs Mak

Welcome

Dear all,
Welcome to the blog. We should be using this blog very frequently, so stay tuned...

Regards,
Mrs Mak