My mom always told me that my biological father was a maths genius, which led me to believe that I did not inherit that side of my brain from him. I have always believed that I was crap at Math, not quite sure why since I did get an A1 for SPM and a B for A-levels which included Add Math concepts. I was also scoring well for Additional Math at Form Five but one fine day, the teacher pissed me off (his name was Mr Khoo) and I walked out of class. That was the end of me taking the Add Math paper for SPM. I still feel I am crap at Math. Probably because I never went to Chinese School and the Hubs is so much better than me at mental arithmetic whereas I just go blank! Sometimes I think it’s more a math phobia than me really being bad at the subject.

Anyway, Math isn’t one of Tee’s strong points either. Despite being a very analytical and logical child (like myself), she seems to fare better with the arts, music,, languages, art…..the creative stuff. But whenever I ask her teachers if she is poor at Math, they give me a ridiculous look to suggest I must be crazy. Perhaps she is average. Or perhaps she is good at math but superbly excellent at English. Who knows…

Her school syllabus (International School syllabus Primary One) is quite advanced to me as they learn how to add and subtract in different variations up to 20 (or was it 100?), they learn about time, 2D and 3D shapes, counting money, sequencing, worded problem solving skills, odd and even numbers, counting in 2’s, 3’s, 5’s and 10’s, gosh…..I cannot remember what else.

I’ve checked the local syllabus Primary One book and all they do is writing and recognizing the numbers 1 to 20, some simple addition and subtraction up to 20, learning how to count till 20, sequencing up to 100, worded problems, counting money, time and 2D and 3D shapes towards the end of the year. I guess there are some similarities except that in the local syllabus, the first half of the year seems pretty boring when they are starting to count and write from scratch the numbers 1 to 20. It’s a lot faster in the International syllabus and it looks tougher as well. Although the concepts are the same, the depth of sums is varied.

My problem is that Tee will be attending a local syllabus school next year and because she has already done so much with the International Syllabus, I worry that she might get seriously bored and demotivated. Or do you think she could get interested in other things at school despite the boring academic work, like new school, new friends, new teachers, new environment, etc?

*sigh* What shall I do? If I keep her back another year here, she will progress to Primary Two of the International School Syllabus which is even MORE advanced but at the end of the day, she will still have to go back to the local syllabus as we cannot afford to send her to International School, nor do we want to, for many reasons.

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