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I set up this website to give primary school kids free tests in math and computer skills Online Assessment Home If you guys have younger siblings, let them try. It should help to compare how they do with others. It should also help to check how well the kids going to coaching places perform. I...

I can see that Australian math exercises tend to lack certain emphasis that I see in the US past papers. Number sense is an area that I see the Americans and Singaporeans putting a lot of focus on. It makes perfect sense to do this. Excellent number sense allows kids to become good...

This is a question that bugged me for ages. They say that 80% or more of students at selective high schools need tutors. They needed tutors to be able to get in to these selective schools, and need tutors to survive in these schools. My own niece is spending a lot of time at tutoring places for...

I have talked to some parents whose kids did not do too well in HSC and School certificate. They all seem to claim that tutoring is really about using tutoring colleges to force the kids to do homework. I wonder if this is rationalisation for failure or genuine feeling. They also claim that many...

I wonder if you guys at HS ever try to work out the rule for AND and OR when it comes to working out probability? For example, if you toss a coin, the probability of a head is 1/2. If you toss it again, the probability of a head is again 1/2. Therefore the possibility of tossing two heads in...

I'd like to get an idea how math teachers teach the kids to do division of fraction in modern times. I was shocked when I saw how professional teachers in a video clip offered in a HomeTutor product from Telstra Bigpond show kids how to do fraction division. This is what they show 2/3 <meta...

I found a little math problem from an old selective school test. Let's see if you smart kids out there can solve this grade 5-6 problem. If you cannot, perhaps you need tutoring, otherwise you just do well by self-learning --- Anna walks to school in 20 minutes. Anna can cycle to the school in 5...

Mathematics education in Australian primary school is just too basic. They have dumbed down the basic skill tests and the NAPLAN so much. Here are some real math tests. My kid who scored well on these mathematics tests recently got top 1% of UNSW mathematics competition and also strolled into an...