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What do you mean? Do you mean this is too hard for students in Australia at grade 6-7? Kids about grade 6 are expected to be able to deal effectively with this kind of problem in most Asian countries. As I said, I got this problem from grade 6 Singapore test.

Here is my simplest solution. It does not involve algebra at all. It's a pure ratio and fraction method that kids at grade 5 should feel comfortable. I drew an illustration of the ratios. From the attached image one can see ---- Fred used up 1 and a half of his money. This is 1.5 units. Then...

I agree with untouchablecuz about the point that older students and adults tend to fall for algebra. Perhaps this is because that's the last thing that we learn in secondary education. For a problem like this, the trouble is that the job of writing out the two relationships in algebraic way is...

A while ago, multiple choice questions are scanned by scanners that are not digital as such. They put a thick stack of sheets on the scanner tray. These scanners look at the sheets and locate on the precise locations "dark" and "white" blobs. They produce a text file telling the question number...

Don't you get HSC general math questions that are similar to this problem? I am sure when they ask you to do problem solving they give you a situation and often this kind of language would creep in? In fact this is more to do with general math than the extensions.

Guys, I am greatly disturbed by the language of Australia reporters that I want you guys to comment on this problem that I see all the time on newspapers. It seems to suggest that many reporters don't know how to do basic calculations like multiplication, division and fractions. When they...

My daughter at grade 5 had a look at this algebraic solution. As she had never seen this kind of algebra before, she said she would not attempt this way until she probably got to grade 10. But she came up with a solution that Hermand offered within 2 minutes after I told her that the answer was...

Thanks for trying, guys. Hermand got it right in the shortest possible way. I came up with 3 solutions myself. Two of them have been offered here. The simultaneous algebraic equations offers the worst possible way to solve it. It's the way that many older students and adults tend to do (as...

Guys, I found this grade 6 or perhaps early grade 7 ratio problem. I'd like you guys to have a go and tell me how you feel. I am worried that mathematics teaching in NSW no longer has the punch to get through difficult problems. There seems to be too much rote-learning. I found that this little...

Hey, people who are doing badly in mathematics won't be much good at University. Your choices at University will be very limited. That's not even talking about the fact that you virtually need math for everything nowadays. Even Biologists now need hard math as the science is moving into...

It depends if you are better than your teacher or just a normal student. If you are better than your teacher intellectually, you can do anything by yourself. Just buy books and read them. Some teachers are not even worth listening to.

After my kid got into OC class I started to realise why selective highschool students said they could not survive without tutoring colleges. It's not because tutoring colleges teach any better. It is more like about teachers at selective schools don't want to teach. They prefer giving work to...

Self-study first, ask school teachers to help 2nd, ask parents and older siblings to help 3rd, failing all that ask for one-to-one tutoring. For math, buy textbook from Singapore to self-study. It will help as they have a complete system that provides textbook at the easy to read English kind.

Re: Truong's tutoring, any comments? That's rotten. The eye-care industry is really a bad lot. They con people into buying glasses for kids so that kids get hooked. Once they get on glasses, they can never get back to normal. If they don't there is a chance as long as they stop their bad...

First you need to understand yourself. That's the very important step to know your strength and weakness. Most kids who have natural talents in certain things, they do extremely well without any help on those areas. Once you have identified your weaknesses, try to understand why you have those...

The tutoring institutes tend to have their own way of doing things like a school of martial art. At least that's what they try to tell customers to think they could "unfairly" push the interest of the customer over the rest. This is particularly true about their trial exams where they hint they...

My nieces were and are with ABC. It depends on the tutor. I had a look at the marking in English, it was bad. But I think that depends on the teacher. I don't expect anything special about places that put up 30 kids into one class anyway. Private one-on-one tutor will certainly beat going to a...

It's near selective school test time. I have set up 3 trial math tests to help selective school candidates. I have got a good number of active accounts using my math test site to see how they perform against the best in Australia. If you have young siblings trying for selective school this...

It's near selective school test time. I have set up 3 trial math tests to help selective school candidates. I have got a good number of active accounts using my math test site to see how they perform against the best in Australia. If you have young siblings trying for selective school this...

Good sense! But don't expect that is going to happen. You will be swamped with Uni work. You won't even have time to do your chores that your mum would expect you to. Your sister might not fit your learning style ... It's easier said than done.