As the saying goes, life is full of irony. A comedy of errors. Chaos theory.
If they were dead, I'm sure ALL my past math teachers would be rolling around in their graves causing a level 9 Richter-scaled earthquake if they somehow heard the news.
I've become a math tutor.
Hahahahaha... Me... Math...
Does not compute. Bad command or file name.
Anyway, it was a direct request for help from my wife to rescue her beloved niece from a bad graded PSLE result in Math. And who am I to refuse a cry for help?
Seriously. Ok, PSLE Math I can cope with. I can do it, understand it (most times). But how do you teach math? I know I shouldn't be saying, "Ok, you see these numbers? Do this, this, this and this"
That's just handholding and spoon feeding. I should be teaching and the kid should be learning. And it should all be done within a kid's attention span. Before they tire and zone out and get distracted.
Sigh... I ought to pick up some Primary school math teaching skillz by next weekend or all this effort is just going to go down the drain.
Anyone reading this? Any hints? NIE-ers?