Yesterday was at my in-laws house, the usual Sunday routine for the Loh family to meet up.

My second niece, Zeng Yee, does her usual updates of whatever happened to her over the week for me. That’s what she likes to do. She likes to talk to me so much. Hey, I am not bragging, its true. I guess for the very basic reason – I listen to her little voice and hear her heartfelt words.

Yesterday’s hot topic was her dad was in School with her on Saturday for a meet-with-the-parents session, a talk on the way Mathematics were taught in her school. I was looking through the handouts. What Alien they were to me!

Number bonds?! What’s that? It was a new style of teaching introduced a few years back, for children to understand the relationship of numbers and how they eventually do add up or substract from one another.

Why has Maths become even more complicated as it already it? Anyway after reading through the 10 pages long of handouts, the ending was something that woke me up from all the Greek.

In a small decorated box, it wrote:

“Tell me, and I’ll forget.
Show me, and I’ll remember.
Involve me, and I’ll learn.” By Maria Jones

So true, so true. We used to tell and tell and tell our children what to do, what not to do. But children remember what you tell them only if you show them by example. And whatever that you try to drill it in their heads, get them to do it too, that’s how they learn and remember and never be forgotten.

True for you?

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Songs for Lower Primary Math:

www.waterford.org

www.songsforteaching.com

www.sara-jordon.com/MathMenu.html