deja vu - back to school

last week, the hubby & i had to go to the daughter's school for report card day. she didn't do fantastically well but i am not that very much disappointed although i would have preferred much better results. but her dad was so upset & said she did not put in 150%. she studies albeit the eleventh hour (read: one night before the exam day) although we advise her to prepare well ahead. but i guess its part of the teenager's growing pains. old habits die hard - heck, if i had to sit for an exam now i'd probably do the same. and this 150% comes from the same person who also does eleventh hour research just the night before a certain project is due... oh well, perhaps it's hereditary.

but there is a chance at redemption in the year end finals & of course her pmr next year. so the thing is, the slyllabus now is so different from what we studied back then. my daughter asked me to coach in her maths, constructing angles. its been what, almost 20 years since i left school. so, the first thing i did was to go to the bookstore and buy a reference book. browsing through the book, they might as well be speaking french. i spent the weekend 'revising' my maths & learning how to construct angles using only the ruler & compass set and trying to solve the problems.

hubby got a brief look at what i was doing and asked 'didn't we do this when we were in form 5?'. i said 'ya, that's why kids these days are having difficulty coping. teachers are breezing through the topics without caring if the kids are really able to comprehend the concept. one minute, the daughter doing her homework on angles & the next minute on co-ordinates (literally)'

so its back to hitting the books - constructing angles, algebra equations, linear functions, pythagoras theorem & many more exciting formulaes. exciting much? one topic at a time..... sigh!! oh happy days..........