Helo Year 2012

This blog is alive again after such a long time.
Shall start to share my thoughts again this year. I have the feeling that this will be the year that ideas will flow and my creativity will shine (Amen)
There are few concerns related to Malaysian education scenarios that currently are brewing in my head.
1. Autonomy of selected universities. UTM & USM are two lucky universities.
2. Use of english in math and science teaching (yes! this issue has not finalized/settled down)
3. Trainee teacher from various universities are still not employed despite  many schools are facing shortage of teachers..
4. Quality of our students

Shall stop here. Lets us hope the government is transparent and are quick to solve them.

PMR result

Yesterday PMR result was announced.
Congratulations to all students who deservingly scored straight As. Almost half a million students took PMR with almost 30 thou getting straight As...The sweet smell of success can be intoxicating. Well done!!

However I am still searching for the actual figures. Where are the actual statistics ? The media seems to be only reporting the achievement of 7% of the population .. Yes we are indeed proud to see the increase..

 But we also want to know  about the rest of the students. The other 93%.!! Give us fair statistics.
 Majority (the norm) of the populations should be of our main concern. These are the students that will enter high secondary school. We also want to know how many students only manage to get all Cs..Ds..ie non performing students. Is there an increase or decrease?
What is the figure? the issues here is about access and equity to educations? Are majority of our students  within the acceptable level of achievement? Can we proudly say that yes we have successfully educate our youngsters to prepare them well for challenging future ahead...

Shall discuss about this once i got the actual statistics.

why students fail mathematics?

At last some..free time to write..My apology for not being able to write sooner....
Finally i manage to finish marking the exam papers.. marks are all settled and done. With that out of the way now i suddenly feel the urge to share my thoughts about this particular topic.

I am going to discuss why students fail mathematics.. however mathematics failure and  'general failure' is interlinked and seperating the two may not be a good idea.. that is another broad topic  which i shall avoid!
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People DONT LIKE TO TALK ABOUT FAILURE.. .wipe it under the carpet or  ignore it..or worst pretend that it does not happens! Human nature do not like to hear negative things about themselves. Hwever no matter how hard it is to face the truth..we ought not to ignore it.Learn to face failure head on ..beleive me that is the only this way can we save more failures in the future..

SO why fail?? 
Generally ATTITUDE is the no 1  reason - there are many type of students  that i have met ??

a. the lazy students-not much can be said about this type other than they ought to set their mind what exactly is they seek in their life..
b. the hardworking students- hey hardworking students fail too?? not fair isnt it? these students usually try to memorize everything...their mind is focusing on a frame of thinking that can become so rigid..the fixation problem actually slowly robbing the mind of the actual thinking or creative processes associated with learning....
c. the worrier type of student- this students worry and have a low confidence in their ability..hence they focus on the wrong thing..unable to stay focus on major ideas. .,their ideas are scattered and remains on the surface..

d. the smart and comfortable student- this type of students are not necessarily the brightest in the class. Neither are they the cleverest..the most improtant attribute is being comfortble with themselves and always asking questions when occassion arises. They study smart,ask the questions most of the tim no matter how silly they look sometimes. Success comes easily to this group of students.

So where are you??
Let me share some of the important rules in successful learning of mathematics.

RULE 1: Know yourselves..work on your weakness and decide what you want. Steer your life towards that. Do not allow your attitude wreck your life..work on that ..say NO to negative habits and create new ones..

RULE 2: Learning from failure - Einstein fail his math class !!so whats the big deal? let failure become the teacher to you. Question yourself why you have failed. find reasons..use that as a means towards learning better skills to overcome failure the next time..treat failure as valuable learning experiences

RULE 3: Learn not to be sensitive to critism. Developed 'thick skin' when it comes to learning. Ask and think hard..ask again ..keep on trying till you get it right!! then do the exercises yourself. when you got stuck ..always ask the right person.