Wednesday, 21 January 2015

Homework on 21 January 2015

Homework on 21 January 2015

1) Companion Booklet 2 Practice Sheets 1 and 2 (pgs 2- 4)


Things to note:
(1) For Science, the pupils did some experiments on measurement of mass and volume. They used the electronic scale and lever scale, They also learnt how to measure the volume of irregular objects.
For reading the volume of a liquid, the pupils are taught to position their eye at the same level as the liquid level (known as the meniscus). This is is avoid parallax error.
They also completed a worksheet to assess their understanding of matter and whether they can identify what a given experiment seeks to test (whether it is on "mass" or "occupies space").
(2) For Math, we did some revision on rounding of whole numbers. Do advise the pupils to read the questions carefully as they assumed that questions will always be asked in a certain manner. For example, the number of cars are about 200, rounded off to the nearest hundreds. They assume that the first question asked them what is the greatest actual number of cars, followed by the smallest actual number of cars (which was the practice questions in workbook). Thus in the Math worksheet, when the questions are asked in the reverse sequence, their answers are wrong as they did not read the questions carefully. Do impress upon them on the importance of reading instructions and questions.