Cumulative
review is covering concepts that have been taught throughout the
whole year frequently, not just reviewing work covered in the current or past unit.
How
does this learning tool work?
1. Encourage your child to keep a learning
journal of all the Mathematics questions that he or she has not
managed to solve. These questions can be from the workbooks, school
worksheets, examination papers, assessment books and even tuition
homework assigned.
2. Update this learning journal on a daily or weekly
basis. For younger children or those older children who have not
taken responsibility for their own learning, the parent may need to
be more involved in keeping this learning journal. However, I do suggest
that parents need to train their upper primary children to be
involved. Remember that when they go to secondary school with even
more subjects, our abilities as parents in helping them with their
homework will diminish. So start training them early to be
independent leaners!
What
do you do with this learning journal?
For children who are weaker in
Mathematics, it will be more useful to review on a daily basis at
least 5 to 10 questions from this journal. This means that the child
has to resolve the questions starting from scratch, without any
reference. You should not be surprised that despite corrections
having been explained by the teacher, your child might still be
unable to solve some of the questions independently.
If you are able
to explain to your child how to solve those questions, that does not
mean the end of these problematic questions. A few days later or a
week later, let your child review those problematic questions again.
If your child is able to master it now, may I suggest to you that you
should still review these questions but maybe over a longer interval
in between.
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