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Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math this week?
🌟 Understanding a Timeline
🌟 Understanding In-Between Timings

In our last lesson of the term, we extended our concepts of length to a 2-D model - the timeline! We discussed chronological order and had conversations revolving around "earlier than" and "later than". With a deepened understanding of time depicted over a period, we then explored the possible in-between times of a start and an end time. We also continued to develop our time estimation skills to help us in our everyday lives.

Did you enjoy this last topic, CM Level 1-ers? Can you think of how you can use the timeline in your everyday lives? Can you use your new knowledge to plan a structured schedule for yourself, by yourself?

Do challenge yourself with the Review questions on your own during our term break! Meanwhile, have a lovely break, and we'll see you next term! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

🔎🔢📣 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math this week?
🌟 Telling Time to Half Past
🌟 Showing Time to Half Past

In our third unit, we solidified our knowledge of telling time. We looked at the various representations of time when it is half past the hour. And then we practised reasoning backwards to solve an inverse problem - it is important for us to be able to practise lateral thinking shifts in terms of time, as well as relating that to time. This all helps us in Time estimation later which is an important part of our Executive Thinking Skills.

The term "o' clock" is derived from the phrase "of the clock". Hundreds of years ago, when there were different ways of telling time, people would use the phrase "of the clock" to indicate it is time read from the clock. What about the other ways of telling time, CM Level 1-ers, why do you think we don't use them anymore?

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math in this topic?
🌟 Grouping Shapes
🌟 Identifying "Hidden" Shapes in a Shadow figure of Overlapping shapes

This week, we combined our skills of shape identification and data classification to sort and group our shapes. In the second half of the lesson, we challenged ourselves to find and identify distinct shapes in the shadow figures of multiple overlapping shapes.

We learnt this week that not all triangles and quadrilaterals can look very different even though they belong in the same shape group. But, what about circles, CM Level 1-ers?

Let your teacher know. We'll see you next weekend! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math in this topic?
🌟 Recognising and drawing different shapes
🌟 Form a 2D shape from cut-out pieces of the shape

In our second lesson in this Geometry topic, we learnt how to recognise different shapes, even when they are rotated, flipped over or even upside down! We also picked up quite a few skills this lesson, such as transferring an image on a grid to another using similar reference points and classifying the shapes by the number of sides they have! In the second part of our unit, we learnt that putting 2 or more basic shapes together can form a new shape! We also learnt that we can make different shapes even by placing the same 2 shapes in different positions.

Did you have fun exploring the various shapes we can make with our basic shapes, CM Level 2-ers?

We'll see you next weekend! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

🔎🔢📣 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math this week?
🌟 Attributes of a Clock Face
🌟 Identifying Errors

This week, we honed our observation skills by trying to carefully observe details by first understanding the attributes of a common everyday object - the clock. Once we had identified the attributes of an analogue clock face, we challenged ourselves through a series of practices to spot an error, identify the error and then correct it. This series of exercises, taken at the broadest level, is universal our focus on data errors and ultimately errors presented in more abstract cases. Our approach toward learning in our CM classes contribute to the self-critical, self-correcting, ever-evolving practice of Math, and ultimately to furthering and extending our skills into other disciplines.

CM Level 1-ers, this might have been a deceivingly simple lesson on telling time, but the underlying skills of observation and analysis you had developed this extend far beyond the realm of Math. 🍲4🤔

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math this week?
🌟 Comparing the size of two 2-Digit numbers
🌟 Comparing and ordering of three 2-digit numbers

In Part 1 of Unit 3, we learnt how to compare two 2-digit numbers and correctly determine the larger value of the two. We also familiarised ourselves with the inequality signs and learnt how to write an inequality Math sentence. In the second part of the unit, we learnt how to compare more than two 2-digit numbers and arrange them in ascending or descending order.

In our Math Plus story today, we If you made a mathematical symbol, what would it look like, CM Level 1-ers? 👩🏻‍🎓 Can you draw one, give it a meaning and share it with your teachers?

Hope you're having loads of fun and rest in the first week of the June school break, we'll see you next week! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

🔎🔢📣 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math this week?
🌟 Duration of Time
🌟 Tellling Time to the Hour

This week, we found out how time could only be read in ancient civilisation with a sundial when it was sunny, but not on cloudy days, until the water clock was invented. We practised calculating duration by the number of hours, as a prelude to calculating increasing metric subdivions in the coming weeks. In the second part of our unit, we continued to explore how clock hands move by being our clocks' gear and cog - the full rotation of the minute hand causes the hour hand to move a notch, which means that for each full circle the minute hand turns, the the hour hand would have turned 1/12th of that. What about the relation between the minute and second hands?

CM Level 1-ers, you were given a hidden message in last week's lesson summary. Have you noticed it and deciphered it? 😉🕵🏻🕵🏻‍♂️

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math in this topic?
🌟 Geometric Shapes in Art
🌟 Using Geometric Shapes to Form Pictures

In the last unit of our Different Shapes workbook, we learnt all about geometric shapes and their attributes. We also uncovered geometric shapes in drawings and art pieces. We talked about one of the most famous abstract artists in the world - Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky who chose to use geometric shapes and colours to express his thoughts and feelings. In the last section of the workbook, we used our creativity to construct a story out of the figure we made using our shape fragment puzzle.

CM Level 1-ers, could you try to express yourself in your own abstract art creation of geometric shapes and colours? Show your teacher when you next see them!

We'll see you next weekend! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

Welcome back to Term 2 of our Creative Math classes!

✨  🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math this week?
🌟 Working in groups using concrete objects to make a group of ten and count on from 10 to tell the number (up to 100)
🌟 Counting in groups of 10s and 1s to relate quantities to numerals and words

This week, we revised and solidified our knowledge in the decimal system that we use in our everyday lives. We learnt about the Conservation of numbers, skip counting in 10’s and understanding place values. We also played games that helped us internalise the association of concrete quantities with numerals and their spelled words.

Did you know that the decimal system means that we think and count numbers in groups of 10, CM Level 1-ers? 💪🏻Can you imagine if we counted in 12's? What does that remind you off?

Have fun thinking about this and we'll see you next week! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math this week?
🌟 Ordering numbers up to 100
🌟 Describing a given number pattern using language such as "1 more/less" or "10 more/less" to find the missing numbers

This week, we worked on understanding the number system and the ordering of numbers, all the way up to 100. Understanding this number line well helps us to relate one number to another. In the second unit of our chapter, we started to look at numbers that are 1  more or less than another number. And then, we moved on to working out numbers that are 10 more or less than another number.

Could you work out what is 11 more than or less than another number, CM Level 1-ers? What if it were 20? Or 41? Can you figure it out?

Enjoy the start of your June school break, we'll see you next week! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math this week?
🌟 Identifying different rules on a number chart
🌟 Describe a given number pattern and continuing the number pattern

In this last unit of Book 4, we were introduced to a number chart and we observed and discussed several rules we can identify on a number chart. Once we were familiar with these rules on the number chart, we could fill in missing numbers in segments of the number chart. In the second part of the unit, we continued to study number sequences and how to continue a sequence with the rule governing that sequence.

In our Math Plus story today, we saw how the students of Greek mathematician Pythagoras learned how to find numbers that make 🔺s and ◾️s. Did you figure out their patterns, CM Level 2-ers? 👩🏻‍🎓🧑‍🎓👨🏽‍🎓

We'll see you next week! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math in this topic?
🌟 Identifying different shapes in the objects around us
🌟 Spotting shapes in objects

This week we learnt about the attributes of three different shapes! Specifically, the quadrilaterals, triangles and circles. Using our Puzzle Board and Shape Fragment Puzzles, we enjoyed a fun game of making up these 3 shapes with fragmented puzzle pieces. In the second half of our unit, we learnt how to spot the 3 basic shapes from various angles in the world around us.

CM Level 2-ers, as we observe the quadrilaterals, triangles and circles around us, do these shapes change when we shift our line of sight relative to the position of these objects?

Let your teacher know and we'll see you next week! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math this week?
🌟 Considering Lengths greater than 100cm
🌟 Adding and Subtracting Lengths

In our last lesson of the term, we extended our concepts of lengths to a larger magnitude - we measured and considered lengths over 100cm or even longer than our arms are outstretched! In the second part of the unit, we then worked on computing lengths and finding sums or differences. We practised using diagrams, understanding and solving problem sums through the vertical addition and subtraction methods because Practice makes better!

Did you enjoy this last topic, CM Level 2-ers? When you do computations of large distances, can you imagine those distances in your mind?

Do challenge yourself with the Review questions on your own during our term break! Meanwhile, have a lovely break, and we'll see you next term! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

🔎🔢📣 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math this week?
🌟 Measuring Lengths in cm with Different Types of Rulers
🌟 Estimating

In our third unit, we had a lot of hands-on fun using straight stiff rulers and bendy rulers measuring lengths of various items in the book. In the second half of the unit, we explore a very important skill - estimating. Estimating is important because it helps us determine the reasonableness of our answer; it is a skill that requires us to conceptualize and mentally manipulate numbers if we're dealing with numbers. If we're dealing with length, extending this skill allows us to estimate distances, which is an important part of executive functioning.

In real life, estimation is part of our everyday experience, CM Level 2-ers. Can you think of situations in your lives when you have had to do estimations?

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math in this topic?
🌟 Recognising and forming quadrilaterals on Geo-Board
🌟 Identifying sides and vertices of quadrilaterals

This week, we are introduced to Quadrilaterals, otherwise known as 4-sided shapes. We formed all sorts and sizes of 4-sided shapes on our geo-board. We then played a game, challenging ourselves to form as many quadrilaterals as we possibly can with a given number of rubber bands on our geo-boards. In the second part of the lesson, we discovered the attributes of quadrilaterals and how to express them in Mathematical language.

How many different types of quadrilaterals were you able to form on your geo-board, CM Level 2-ers?

Let your teacher know! We'll see you next weekend! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math in this topic?
🌟 Recognise and form triangles on Geo-Board
🌟 Identify sides and vertices of triangles

In our second lesson with our super fun manipulatives, we learnt about the attributes of triangles and how to describe them. As we used our Geo-boards to form various triangles with our rubber bands, we learnt how to relate them to the symbolic pictures on our workbooks!

Did you have fun making triangles of all sizes and forms on your Geo-board this week, CM Level 1-ers?

We'll see you next weekend! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in this Creative Math workbook! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math in this topic?
🌟 Finding rules and the next pattern
🌟 Introduction to Colour Patterns
🌟 Introduction to Shape Patterns
🌟 Introduction to Various Patterns

We embarked on the various stages of understanding patterns :
1. Looking at patterns, identifying their attributes and understanding that patterns follow a rule;
2. Recognising simple patterns on our own and duplicating it;
3. Composing patterns and recomposing in concrete form; and
4. Compose patterns and recomposing to symbolic patterns.

Hope you had fun learning how to compose and duplicate patterns, CM Step 1-ers! We'll see you next weekend! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Can Math really be learnt through PLAY? 🤔🧐

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Can Math really be learnt through PLAY? 🤔🧐

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In our short 45-min CM Experience Day session, we challenged the students to a series of fun, engaging puzzles and mentally stimulating games. One of these young ladies, L, came into the session thinking that "Math is boring". She left loving Math. ❤️🌸 Bravo, Miss L.

- Did you observe the girls being fully engaged in the Math challenge?

- Did you observe the girls demonstrating the 5 SLAs (Sub-conscious Learning Abilities) while they were working out a solution :

1. Focus
2. Confidence
3. Perseverance
4. Ability to Self-correct
5. Sense of healthy competition

??

You can literally "see" that Eureka ⚙️⚙️ moment unfolding.💡

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Math Misery --> Positive Math Mindset
😭 --> 🤩
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Let's reach out and help every child enjoy Math the way they should...

X PlayFACTO School Enrichment Team

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Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math in this topic?
🌟 Finding rules and the next pattern
🌟 Introduction to Shape Patterns

This week we learnt about rules, patterns and sequences. This week, we activate our kinetic, aural, visual and symbolic learning senses through rhythm and movement in our lesson to explore patterns! From different objects in a sequence, we progressed to different shapes in a sequence. We attempted to seek out rules from simple patterns, making a hypothesis about the next shape in the sequence, and finally we checked ourselves for correctness.

Did we have loads of fun playing this week, CM Step 1-ers? 👕🩳👚

Have a lovely break and we'll see you next weekend! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math this week?
🌟 Making an inference of a whole picture by looking at a small section
🌟 Learning to identify traits, compare them and sort same and different objects

This week, we continue to develop our ability to observe and name the features of a part of a picture and using that information, build up our Higher Order Thinking Skills of analysis, synthesis and evaluation in order to infer and predict the entire picture.

What if.... you were asked to pick an object and draw just one part of what you see, CM Step 1-ers? ✍🏻❓Would you like to challenge yourself?

We'll see you next weekend! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

🔎🔢📣 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math this week?
🌟 Learning Positional Language "In front of" and "Behind"
🌟 Learning Positional Language "Inside" and "Outside"

This week, we extended our Math positional language to include positions assuming that objects are placed in a a line or sequence with a start position and an end position. We learnt the relationship between the physical positions. This provides a crucial foundation for the children to gain understanding of abstract positioning, such as numbers on a number line. In the second unit, we learnt to describe an object's positions from our positions and them moved on top describe an object's position from others.

CM Step 1-ers, can you try to use these words during the week to describe positions of the items around the home? Tell your teacher all about it next week!

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in this Creative Math workbook! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math in this topic?
🌟 Counting and expressing numbers
🌟 Understanding quantities and numbers
🌟 Learning how to compare numbers
🌟 Ordering numbers 1 to 5

We solidified our learning by making positive connections between physical, concrete quantities and the abstract symbol of numbers. In this workbook, we developed counting skills, reflected on the concept of sequence and constructed understanding of simple quantification. Numbers are at the very heart of all the Math that we shall encounter in school so having a well-laid foundation of mathematical concepts during this period is essential!

Hope you enjoyed learning all about our number friends, CM Step 1-ers! We'll see you next weekend! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math in this topic?
🌟 Learning how to compare numbers
🌟 Order numbers 1 to 5

In the second week of our Number Kit workbook, we continued to learn our numbers from 1 to 5 and solidified our understanding of of abstract numerical symbols to concrete quantities. We then developed our ability from comparing concrete quantities to comparing numerals. We also learnt about the Number Line and how to order our natural numbers from 1 to 5.

Which is your favourite number, CM Step 1-ers? Why? Let your teacher know when you see her!

We'll see you next weekend! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

🔎🔢📣 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math this week?
🌟 Using a Tool to Compare Lengths
🌟 Introduction to Unit of Length

This week, we discovered that we sometimes cannot compare lengths just by looking at them. We need to use a tool to measure them. This lesson forms a concrete example of introducing a fixed and unknown variable to compare 2 varying and unknown variables - a common concept we use in modelling in Primary school. In the second part of the book, we learn about units of length and their importance.

CM Level 2-ers, now that you know how to to a fixed tool to measure the length of 2 different items, so that you can then compare those 2 items, could you try to do this and compared the ages of 2 people?

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math this week?
🌟 Comparing the size of two 3-Digit numbers
🌟 Permutating 3 digits to form 3-Digit numbers and Comparing them

In Part 1 of Unit 3, we learnt how to compare two 3-digit numbers and correctly determine the larger value of the two. We also familiarised ourselves with the inequality signs and learnt how to write an inequality Math sentence. In the second part of the unit, we learnt how to systematically permutate 3 single digits to form 3-digit numbers, and then compare them and order the 3-digit numbers in order of magnitude.

Permutation is the action of arranging our digits into several possible ways.What happens if we had 2 identical digits, CM Level 2-ers? Can we still have 6 different permutations? 🤔

Hope you're having loads of fun and rest in the first week of the June school break, we'll see you next week! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

🔎🔢📣 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math this week?
🌟 Describing Positions and Directions
🌟 Learning Positional Language "Above", "On top of", " Below" and "Under"

For our last workbook for the term, we returned to Geometry with a focus on Math language. We enjoyed our discusssions using words to describe movement and position such as "next", "left" and "right" from both a first-party and a third-party perspective. In the second unit, we added more positional words to our vocabulary to describe vertical positions.

What did you enjoy about this lesson, CM Step 1-ers? Tell your teacher! We'll see you next weekend! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

🔎🔢📣 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math this week?
🌟 Comparing Lengths using a Unit of Measurement
🌟 Understanding Comparisons when Using Different Units of Measurement

This week, we explored using various objects to measure lengths of other objects and compare them against each other. In the second half of our lesson, we explored various units of length. We discovered how the measurements of an object will change depending on the unit of length we use.

CM Level 3-ers, compare your stride with that of your parents. Who would require more steps to walk the same distance? You or your parents? Why?

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math in this topic?
🌟 Recognising and forming pentagons on Geo-Board
🌟 Recognising and forming hexagons on Geo-Board

In the last unit of our Different Shapes workbook, we learnt all about pentagons and hexagons - the number of sides and vertices, as well as how to draw them. Interestingly, hexagons and pentagons occur in the natural world around us much more than we think.

Did you know, that a 20-sided shape is called a icosahedron, CM Level 2-ers? What do you think is the maximum number of sides that a shape can have?

We'll see you next weekend! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

Welcome back to Term 2 of our Creative Math classes!

✨ 🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math this week?
🌟 Skip counting in tens/hundreds to establish 10 tens make 1 hundred
🌟 Understanding Number notation, representations and place values (tens and ones)

This week, we revised and solidified our knowledge in the decimal system that we use in our everyday lives. We learnt about the Conservation of numbers, skip counting in 10’s and understanding place values. We also played games that helped us internalise the association of concrete quantities with numerals and their spelled words.

Did you know that the decimal system means that we think and count numbers in groups of 10, CM Level 1-ers? 💪🏻Can you imagine if we counted in 12's? What does that remind you off?

Have fun thinking about this and we'll see you next week! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

Welcome back to Term 2 of our Creative Math classes!

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math this week?
🌟 Developing observational skills and learning to identify identical objects, in whole or in part
🌟 Learning to identify traits, compare them and sort same and different objects

In the first lesson of the term, we worked on developing crucial observational skills by collecting data, understanding and interpreting the meaning of the information using all our senses. We also learnt how to identify, compare and sort traits and characteristics of objects, and then classifiying them as same or different. All of these skills are broad foundations of complex thought and problem solving later in life.

Hope you enjoyed your first lesson of the term, CM Step 1-ers!

We'll see you next weekend! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math this week?
🌟 Different ways to skip count by 100s and 10s
🌟 The value of 1000

This week, we solidified our understanding on counting whole integers and skip counting. We familiarised ourselves with skip counting by 100s and 10s, as well as the place value of single digits, tens and hundreds. In the second unit of our chapter, we extended our learning to the number One Thousand.

Can you see a pattern in the way we count and skip count, CM Level 2-ers? 999 and 1000 are very big numbers and appear very different but what is the difference of these numbers? You know it. 😎

Enjoy the start of your June school break, we'll see you next week! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math in this book?
🌟 Developing observational skills and learning to identify identical objects, in whole or in part
🌟 Learning to identify traits, compare them and sort same and different objects
🌟 Making an inference of a whole picture by looking at a small section
🌟 Learning to identify traits, compare them and sort same and different objects

In this topic of Geometry, and through our Cube Puzzle Set, we learnt and practised some very important foundational skills! The ability to recognise an object from its part or whole aids in early cognitive development and shifting young children from egocentrism thereby encouraging them to consider alternative perspectives. The learning outcome of this workbook's topic works to reduce centration, or the tendency of the child to focus attention on one aspect of situation and ignore all others. We also learnt how to identify traits of an object, compare and sort them by trait. This prepares young minds for data collection and classification skills needed for complex Big Data harnessing and Analytics later in life.

Did you enjoy the cube puzzle games, CM Step 1-ers? Keep observing and keep thinking of the qualities you can see in the things around you! 🧅🌎🌳🐡🤔

We'll see you next weekend! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math this week?
🌟 Identifying different rules on a number chart
🌟 Describe a given number pattern and continuing the number pattern

In this last unit of Book 4, we were introduced to a number chart and we observed and discussed several rules we can identify on a number chart. Once we were familiar with these rules on the number chart, we could fill in missing numbers in segments of the number chart. In the second part of the unit, we continued to study number sequences and how to continue a sequence with the rule governing that sequence.

In our Math Plus story today, we were introduced to one of the most famous number sequences discovered by Italian mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci - the Fibonacci numbers. The Fibonaci numbers occur in nature and all around us, such as in flower petals or pineapple skin. Can you discover your own number sequence, CM Level 2-ers? 👩🏻‍🎓🧑‍🎓👨🏽‍🎓

We'll see you next week! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math in this topic?
🌟 Learning how to compare numbers
🌟 Order numbers 1 to 5

In the second week of our Number Kit workbook, we continued to learn our numbers from 1 to 5 and solidified our understanding of of abstract numerical symbols to concrete quantities. We then developed our ability from comparing concrete quantities to comparing numerals. We also learnt about the Number Line and how to order our natural numbers from 1 to 5.

Which is your favourite number, CM Step 1-ers? Why? Let your teacher know when you see her!

We'll see you next weekend! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math in this topic?
🌟 Recognise and draw circles
🌟 Identify and count the number of circles in a group of overlapping circles

This week we learnt about the attributes of circles and the area it occupies relative to its size. In our Math Plus story, we also find out why manhole covers and cooking pot covers are designed to be round, and not a triangle or a square. So that even if it is placed upright, it would not fall through the hole! In the second half of our lesson, we challenged ourselves in counting the number of circles in a complicated collection of overlapping circles of various sizes.⭕️🟢🟤🟣

What shapes do you see when 2 circles overlap a part of each other, CM Level 1-ers? What about when 3 or more circles overlap one another partially?

We'll see you next week! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math in this topic?
🌟 Introduction to Colour Patterns
🌟 Introduction to Various Patterns

In our second lesson with our super fun Hanger Set, we extended our understanding of patterns in colours, and then with various patterns. These past 2 lessons have helped out focus on the attributes on the objects around us, first identifying their attributes and then focusing on a specific attribute to construct patterns.

It was tricky business trying to relating concrete patterns to symbolic ones, wasn't it, CM Step 1-ers? But you did a magnificent job! Keep it up!

Please share what you've done with your teachers! We'll see you next weekend! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math in this topic?
🌟 Counting and expressing numbers
🌟 Understanding quantities and numbers

We started off unit 1 with an delightful story about animals and the number of legs they each have. We learnt and practised counting natural numbers from 1 to 5 and understanding the correlation of the abstract elements of numerals to the concrete quantities we are counting. In the second unit, we discovered how to compare the number of ojects of the same kind. This facilitates the children's understanding of "more" and "less".

Do you like counting, CM Step 1-ers? Can you practise your counting at home?

Let your teacher know. We'll see you next weekend! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math this week?
🌟 Shapes from the Top, Front and Side
🌟 Building Objects Given Views of the Top, Front and Side

In our last lesson of the term, we challenged ourselves to examine a 3-D figure made with our building blocks, and then try to visualise the top, front and side views of the figure we were presented with. We had to rotate our figures along the x- and z-axes to find our answers. In the last part of the workbook, we practised reasoning backwards to solve an inverse problem - we challenged ourselves to visualise the 3-D figure, given the top, front and side views.

Which was your favourite topic this term, CM Level 3-ers? Did you enjoy this last topic?

Do challenge yourself with the Review questions on your own during our term break! Meanwhile, have a lovely break, and we'll see you next term! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

🔎🔢📣 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math this week?
🌟 Stacking Levels
🌟 Making Shapes Using a Given Number of Cubes

In our third unit, we were introduced to using numbers within our 3-D figure's outline spaces to represent the number of levels stacked. This lesson challenges our spatial reasoning and is an early introduction to the concept of contour lines used in topographical maps. In the second half of the unit, we challenged ourselves to come up with all possible configurations of 3-D figures given a certain number of blocks - first 4, then 5.

CM Level 3-ers, how many possible configurations can we make using 4 building blocks? What about when we use 5 building blocks? What do you think is the number of possible configurations if we were to use 6 building blocks?

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math in this topic?
🌟 Introduction to Pentominoes
🌟 Piecing pentominoes together to form rectangles

This week, we're introduced to Pentominoes, shapes that use five square blocks joined edge to edge to form various combinations! We first tried to arrange 3 square blocks and 4 square blocks in as many ways we could possibly can, and then we discovered for ourselves the various combinations of pentominoes. In the second half of the unit, we pieced pentomino pieces together to form rectangles. No easy task, but our CM students did amazingly!

Do you know that the word Pentomino is derived from the Greek words for '5', and "domino", CM Level 3-ers?

We'll see you next weekend! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math in this topic?
🌟 Radii and Line Segments
🌟 Diameter of a Circle

In our second lesson with the Circles manipulatives, we explore the relationship between Radii and Line Segments, and we learnt how to draw circles given certain conditions, such as circles which touch and which have centers a certain distance apart. In the second part of our unit, we extended our learning to Diameter of circles. We also explored their relationship and made connections in various ways through practise.

In our Math Plus story this week, we learnt about the Vitruvian Man drawn by the famed scientist Leonard Da Vinci. Are you able to check using yourself or  your family members as a test to check if his theory is true, CM Level 4-ers?

We'll see you next weekend! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in this Creative Math workbook! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math in this topic?
🌟 Describing the object pattern
🌟 Describing the shape pattern
🌟 Describing the colour pattern
🌟 Making patterns

At its simplest level, learning and practising how to recognise patterns strengthens our brains' ability to make connections across physical objects and later helping us to identify trends, patterns and relationships in scientific data, which are sometimes abstract. 💪🏻💻

Hope you had fun learning how to identify patterns, CM Step 2-ers! We'll see you next weekend! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math in this topic?
🌟 Describing the object pattern
🌟 Describing the shape pattern

This week we learnt about observing and understanding that patterns are a sequence following the same rule being repeated. We were introduced to object ab patterns, as well as aab, aba, bba, and bab patterns. This is an early precursor to learning all about permutations in later Math and developing logical andsequential problem solving skills! In the second chapter, we learnt about shape patterns, and were introduced to how to identify the start point of a pattern.

Do you see and observe any patterns around you, CM Step 2-ers? 🎹🍰🇨🇷

Let your teacher know! We'll see you next weekend! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math this week?
🌟 Understanding and using positional language "far", "farther", farthest", "close", "closer" and "closest" relative to another object
🌟 Using the positional language we have learnt to describe the position and direction of objects

This week, we worked on recognising a different perspective that we can take and expressing it with that other perspective that is not our own. We also learnt to describe the positions using the words "farthest" and "closest", and how to create our own stories using the new words we had learnt today.

Did you enjoy the game you played with your friends today? Would you like to play it with Mummy or Daddy? 🥰Can you think of how you can describe the position of the equipment in a REAL playground? 🎠

We'll see you next weekend! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

🔎🔢📣 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math this week?
🌟 Making Quadrilaterals using Tangram Pieces
🌟 Making Various Shapes using Tangram Pieces

Continuing with our lesson on Tangrams this week, we talked about the properties of Quadrilaterals and then explored how to form Quadrilaterals of different properties using our Tangram pieces. In the second half of our lesson, we used all 7 tangram pieces to complete outlines given to us. Through the puzzles and our games, we strengthened our understanding of the relationship between shape and area of the pieces.

CM Step 2-ers, were you able to create pictures and stories out of your tangram sets? Do share them with your parents!

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math in this topic?
🌟 Learning numbers from 1 to 10
🌟 Learning the order of numbers from 1 to 10
🌟 Learning Ordinal Numbers
🌟 Expressing Ordinal Numbers given Various Conditions

This week we went through all the concepts and new ideas we learnt about addition and subtraction stories. From the understanding of a situation, we then went on to express them as addition and subtraction sentences. We learnt about addends and sums; minuends, subtrahends and differences, and consolidated our understanding of these rich and complex mathematical relationships.

CM Step 3-ers, remember how the minuend must be greater than the subtrahend. Why do you think that is so?

We'll see you next weekend! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math in this topic?
🌟 Learning Ordinal Numbers
🌟 Expressing Ordinal Numbers given Various Conditions

In the second week of our Train Puzzles workbook, we extended our knowledge of the order of numbers by learning their ordinal numbers. We learnt that we can use ordinal numbers to identify physical positions. In the last section of the workbook, we discovered that our ordinal numbers and the relative positions change depending on our perspectiven and the direction in which we are counting.

Other than position, CM Step 2-ers, can we number our positions in any other way? For example by age? What position are you in your family in ascending age? Or descending age?

We'll see you next weekend! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

🔎🔢📣 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math this week?
🌟 Making the Same Shape
🌟 Remembering Shapes

This week, we honed our spatial reasoning skills by looking at 3-dimensional figures built with identical cubes. We experimented and explored looking at them from all angles, and uncovered new perspectives when we rotate or flip the 3-dimensional figure. In the second half of our unit, we tried to remember what we saw, and then try to recreate the 3-dimensional figure by using our imagination and some creative problem solving to add or remove blocks to solve our puzzles.

CM Level 3-ers, did you know the word "3D" is an abbreviation of 3-dimensional? What do you think 2D means?

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math this week?
🌟 Understanding AM and PM
🌟 Understanding the relation between start time, finish time and duration, and determining one given the other two variables

In Part 1 of Unit 3, we introduced a timeline to help us visualise the time that has passed in a linear way, We established that AM (or Ante meridiem) denotes a time before noon, and PM (or Post meridiem) denotes a time that is after noon. We then went on to to solidify our understanding and reading of the 24-hour clock and the determination of time passed in hours and minutes. In the second part of the unit, we focused our attention on time durations shorter than a minute.

In our Math Plus story this week, the day was divided into 12 2-hour periods back in ancient China? Can you think of how using the ancient time-telling systems would affect your life today, CM Level 3-ers? What would your day be like? 🧭⏱

Hope you're having loads of fun and rest in the first week of the June school break, we'll see you next week! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

🔎🔢📣 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math this week?
🌟 Understanding Tangram Shapes
🌟 Making Triangles using Tangram Pieces

For our last workbook for the term, we were introduced to a very interesting puzzle in Geometry known as the Tangram, which is made up of a total of 7 geometric shapes - 5 triangles of 3 different sizes, 1 square and 1 parallelogram. The objective of our games was to replicate various patterns given only the outline. After which, we explored making triangles in various ways.

CM Step 2-ers, there was only one shape out of the 7 that will look very different when flipped over. Do you know which shape that is?

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

🔎🔢📣 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math this week?
🌟 Using the Building Cubes to Make Abstract Representations of Everyday Objects
🌟 Counting the number of Building Cubes Used in Building a Structure

This week, we used a whole load of imagination and creativity to build abstract representations of objects that we come across in everyday life using our building cubes. Wow, wasn't that fun! In the second half of our unit, we then started counting and comparing the number of cubes we used to build each 3-dimensional figure.

CM Level 3-ers, how do you think you managed to used the building cubes to recreate the silhouette of a mountain on page 27? Do you think that everything we see in life is possibly made up of really teeny-tiny blocks, actually? 🤔Have a think about the mastabas we read about in our Math Plus story.

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math in this topic?
🌟 Piecing Pentominoes to form various shapes of objects
🌟 Solving Calendar Pentomino Puzzles

In the last unit of our Pentominoes workbook, we are starting to have fun with more challenging puzzles. We pieced together pentominoes to solve shape puzzles, and then we challenged ourselves to solve calendar puzzles based on conditions given.

Which was the most challenging puzzle for you this week, CM Level 4-ers? Hope you enjoyed solving them all!

We'll see you next weekend! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

Welcome back to Term 2 of our Creative Math classes!

✨ 🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math this week?
🌟 Telling time in 5-minute intervals
🌟 Telling Time in 1-minute intervals

For the first workbook of our new term, we are returning to a very important skill and knowledge we need for functioning in our daily lives - telling time! In the first part of this unit, we learnt that the concept of time measurement was inspired by  Galileo's observation of the swinging pendulum. In the second part of the unit, we revised the representations of the elements of the clock face, in particular, the short lines and spaces between each number on the face of the clock.

Many children in this week's class made the connection that telling time to 5-minute intervals, requires knowledge of the 5 times table! Did you make that connection, too, CM Level 3-ers? ⏰✖️5️⃣

We'll see you next week! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

Welcome back to Term 2 of our Creative Math classes!

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math this week?
🌟 Understanding and using positional language "in front of" and "behind"
🌟 Understanding and using positional language "above" and "over", "on top of", "below", "under", "beside" and "next to"

Through a fun story about our animal friends in Unit 1🦒🦌🐻🦁, we learnt all about relative positions and the language we use to describe the animals and their positions in line. In Unit 2, we increased our positional language vocabulary in a huge way! This week, we learnt about how and why we use words such as "in front of", "behind", "above" and "over", "on top of", "below", "under", "beside" and "next to".

Think about your seating position in CM class, CM Step 2-ers. Are you "in front of" or "behind" your teacher? Can you describe your seating position to your Mummies and Daddies? What about your friends and other things you see in your classroom?

Hope you enjoyed your first class of the term.. We'll see you next weekend! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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"Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math this week?
🌟 Tell how many minutes before the next hour the time on a given clock is
🌟 Understanding the relation between start time, finish time and duration, and determining one given the other two variables

This week, we solidified our understanding of the linearity of time and the ways of recording and measuring it, such as by  exploring the concepts of "before" and "after" with the help of our manipulatives. In the second half of the lesson, we also learnt to record and measure time that has gone by and how to calculate it.

Scientists have determined that time is linear because of the ways in which we record and measure it. Are there times in your life when you feel like time doesn't pass at the same rate, CM Level 3-ers? Such as when you are playing a fun game compared with when you are waiting for someone? 🧭⏱

Enjoy the start of your June school break, we'll see you next week! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math in this book?
🌟 Understanding and using positional language "in front of" and "behind"
🌟 Understanding and using positional language "above" and "over", "on top of", "below", "under", "beside" and "next to"
🌟 Understanding and using positional language "far", "farther", farthest", "close", "closer" and "closest" relative to another object
🌟 Using the positional language we have learnt to describe the position and direction of objects

In this topic revolving around Geometry, the Playground set of manipulatives used provided the children with a highly engaging and very entertaining few weeks of learning all about Positional language! We learnt and practised using positional language through a series of fun games and activities. The recognition of spatial relationships develops awareness of alternate perspectives. This aids in reducing centration, or the tendency of a child to focus attention on one aspect of situation, ignoring all others, thereby opening the possibility of viewing a situation from alternative perspectives, and developing their creativity.

While this was fun, the topic has come to an end, CM Step 2-ers. Do continue playing the games at home... meanwhile, what are going to be learning next week? You'll find out soon!

See you next weekend! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math this week?
🌟 Adding time in minutes and seconds
🌟 Subtracting time in minutes and seconds

In this last unit of Book 4, we learnt how to add time AND subtract time in minutes and seconds. We note that 60 seconds make a minute; and 60 minutes make an hour, which is crucial in our calculations.

In regular Math, we use a decimal system which means that we think in groups of 10s - 10 ones make a ten, 10 tens make a hundred, 10 hundreds make a thousand and so forth. Did you notice that we don't quite think in groups of 10 when telling time, CM Level 3-ers? 🧭⏱

We'll see you next week! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math in this topic?
🌟 Learning Ordinal Numbers
🌟 Expressing Ordinal Numbers given Various Conditions

In the second week of our Train Puzzles workbook, we extended our knowledge of the order of numbers by learning their ordinal numbers. We learnt that we can use ordinal numbers to identify physical positions. In the last section of the workbook, we discovered that our ordinal numbers and the relative positions change depending on our perspectiven and the direction in which we are counting.

Other than position, CM Step 2-ers, can we number our positions in any other way? For example by age? What position are you in your family in ascending age? Or descending age?

We'll see you next weekend! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math in this topic?
🌟 Familiarisation with dates and days of the week
🌟 Familiarisation with different months of the year

This week we solidified our knowledge on reading calendars. We made the connection between the calendar and its presentation as a grid with columns and rows. In the second part of the unit, we did calculations to convert months to years and months, and vice versa, and then comparing them. 📅

What do you think life would be like if we did not have calendars to tell us the dates, CM Level 3-ers? Can you imagine a world without calendars?

We'll see you next week! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math in this topic?
🌟 Describing the colour pattern
🌟 Making patterns

In our second lesson with our super fun Pattern Pencil Set, we extended our learning of patterns to identifying sequences through their colours. We continued to understand the ab pattern, the also aab,  aba, bba and bab patterns.

It was tricky business trying to identify the pattern rule and also finding the start of the pattern, wasn't it, CM Step 2-ers? But you did a magnificent job! Keep it up!

Please share what you've done with your teachers! We'll see you next weekend! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math in this topic?
🌟 Learning numbers from 1 to 10
🌟 Learning the order of numbers from 1 to 10

We started off unit 1 by learning about word problems and understanding the meaning of addition. Our emphasis was on reading the problem, drawing objects and counting and adding to solve the equation. In the second unit, we learnt the concept of zero, expressed in numeral form as '0', as well as the meaning of subtraction. We then practised our use of Math language in "one more" and "one less".

Can you think of a subtraction story at home, for example can you create a subtraction story at breakfast, CM Step 2-ers?

Let your teacher know. We'll see you next weekend! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math this week?
🌟 Solving Problems with Volume
🌟 Making a Given Volume with only Containers of Known Capacities

In our last lesson of the term, we found ourselves trying to solve some problems in the context of volume. We draw pictures to help us envision the problem and the changes to our subject volume in the question. This is an important and crucial understanding to the basis of modelling. We extend our critical problem solving skills in the last part of the unit - using some given known container capacities to form a certain volume. On the abstract level, we are using the given volumes as minuends and subtrahends to use their differences as a component of another addition story. We are basically creatively trying to think of all variations of addition and subtraction possibilities in order to derive our final answer. It was challenging but you all did a great job, children!

In our Math Plus this week, CM Level 4-ers, we talked about our water footprints. How much of a water footprint do you think you leave? And what steps can you take to reduce your water footprint? Can you discuss with your family and take steps together as a family?

See if you can do the Review questions on your own during our term break! Meanwhile, have a lovely break, and we'll see you next term! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

🔎🔢📣 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math this week?
🌟 Adding Volumes
🌟 Subtracting Volumes

In our third unit, we wrote out addition sentences with both L and mL units. We then observed the representation of addition through vertical additions as well as the depiction of addition on the number line. We practised reading, understanding and solving problem sums through the vertical addition method. In the second half of our unit we moved on to subtraction of volume. We conitnued to practise our methods of vertical subtraction because Practise Makes Better!

CM Level 4-ers, If volume is the amount of 3-D solid, liquid or gas contained by a closed surface, liquid volume is a way to measure an amount of liquid by describing how much 3-D space it occupies. Do you agree?

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math in this topic?
🌟 Using parts of circles to create elaborate patterns
🌟 Drawing different circles given varying rules

We started off the first part of our unit realising that we can create very accurate, elaborate patterns and pictures using parts of a circle, varying them only by changing the centre of the circle. In the second part of the unit, we used grid paper as a guide for our patterns and rules. We learnt how to decipher and create our own rules of various circles in relation to the centre point and radii.

This week in our Math Plus story, we learnt about 𝜋 (pi), which has been a matter of interest for over 4,000 years! Pi exists in many mathematical and scientific applications. Do you know that the international math commmunity celebrate Pi Day every year, CM Level 4-ers? Do you guess which day it is?

We'll see you next weekend! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math in this topic?
🌟 Look at a calendar and know about dates and days of the week
🌟 Find various rules on the calendar

In our second lesson with the Calendar Pentomino manipulatives, we see that months can start and end on different days. In the second half of our lesson, we worked on identifying the correct perpetual calendar chips by following set conditions given in our workbook. 📆

Why do you think months can start and end on different days, CM Level 3-ers?

We'll see you next weekend! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in this Creative Math workbook! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math in this topic?
🌟 Sorting Data by One Attribute
🌟 Identifying the Attribute
🌟 Re-sort the data by another attribute from the sorted data
🌟 Organise the sorted data in a table

At its simplest level, data is the information we collect—knowingly or otherwise—about the world around us. Your children have been doing it from the moment they were born, but this month, in Sorting Set, the children learn how to identify attributes of qualities of an object with increasing precision. They also classify and sort the objects around them into meaningful order. This leads to later understanding of how to sort abstract data, and over the course of Creative Math, the children shall learn to comprehend the story that the data is telling.

Hope you had fun learning how to classify the things around you, CM Step 3-ers! We'll see you next weekend! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Do you find it difficult to remember the points of the Parent Workshop?

Here's a summary of the PFS unique eMAP framework in a page!

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CM Experience Day takes our kids through a swashbuckling adventure with Captain Feathersword. They will learn how to solve Math problems and develop reasoning skills with the help of our manipulatives and the guidance of our CM Trainers.

🌸 6-8 children per 45-min session guided by 2 Trainers
🌸 Manipulatives loaned by HQ for a day, or you may purchase your own sets for your own multiple use (especially on weekends!)
🌸 Workshop booklet soft copy shall be provided for your preparation
🌸 Consecutively-run sessions will need a 15-min interval for resetting of the room, therefore entire class will take 1 hour

Call Jason to book your CM Experience Day now!

See you soon,
PlayFACTO School Enrichment Team

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Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math in this topic?
🌟 Sorting Data by One Attribute
🌟 Identifying the Attribute

This week we learnt about paying attention to and observing the attributes of various objects, picking out their common attribute and sorting them out in accordance to that attribute. We also learnt how to describe the attribute to develop critical skills for classification.

Are you able to observe and identify attributes in the items you see everyday at home, CM Step 3-ers?📗🗑🛋🖼🧸 Can you tell your teacher how you can sort them by one attribute?

Let your teacher know! We'll see you next weekend! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math in this topic?
🌟 Making a shape in various ways using pattern blocks
🌟 Identifying quadrilaterals and making them using pattern blocks

In the first part of the lesson, we worked with more pattern blocks, making various figures through composition and decomposition of geometric pattern blocks. In the second part of the lesson, we turned the spotlight onto Quadrilaterals! We learnt how to identify their features and created different forms of quadrilaterals using the pattern blocks. Using our newly developed critical thinking skills in geometric shapes, we played a game competing to form quadrilaterals that required as few pieces of pattern blocks as possible.

Where can we see quadrilaterals in our everyday lives, CM Step3-ers? Try and spot one, and when you go directly in front of it, is it still the same shape?  🧐🤔😲

Let your teacher know. We'll see you next weekend! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

🔎🔢📣 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math this week?
🌟 Understanding the Top, Front and Side Views of a Figure
🌟 Drawing the Top, Front and Side Views of a Figure

This week, we started with a fun story of photo taking. We see that when we take photos of ourselves from the front, back, left side and top, the photos would all look diffferent, but they are all the same person - you! In the second part of the lesson, we are introduced to using spatial logic to infer the entirety of a concrete object by trying to understand, reason, and remember the visual and spatial relations among the objects.

CM Step 3-ers, how well do you think one can perceive heights of different blocks within a solid figure by looking from the top? Which angle would be better to view from?

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math in this topic?
🌟 Writing 1-digit addition sentences
🌟 Writing 1-digit subtraction sentences
🌟 Adding 1-digit numbers
🌟 Adding and Subtracting 1-digit numbers

This week we went through all the concepts and new ideas we learnt about addition and subtraction stories. From the understanding of a situation, we then went on to express them as addition and subtraction sentences. We had conversations about addends and sums; minuends, subtrahends and differences, and consolidated our understanding of these rich and complex mathematical relationships.

CM Step 3-ers, remember how the minuend must be greater than the subtrahend. Why do you think that is so?

We'll see you next weekend! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math in this topic?
🌟 Adding 1-digit numbers
🌟 Adding and Subtracting 1-digit numbers

In the second week of our Operation Set workbook, we extended our knowledge of addition stories by practising creating addition sentences from pictures. We learnt that we need to use the Mathematical plus and equals signs in our addition sentences. In the second half of our lesson, we discovered the relationship between minuends, subtrahends, and the difference.

Are you able to create your own addition stories at home, CM Step 3-ers? Let your teacher know when you see her at the next lesson!

We'll see you next weekend! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

🔎🔢📣 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math this week?
🌟 Different Methods of Comparing Volume
🌟 Introduction to Units of Volume

This week, we started on a new new chapter of fun with volumes! We discovered how we could compare the volume of irregularly shaped containers by pouring out all the liquid into smaller containers of the same size and shape. We learnt how to break down a large volume into smaller, measurable quantities. In the second half of the unit, we learnt all about standard international units of volume - Litres and Millilitres, their abbreviation and how they relate to each other. We also tried to relate this uncountable mass of liquid with concrete, countable blocks to help us better understand volume.

CM Level 4-ers, we read this week about how the first raingauge was invented in Korea in 1441, more than 480 years ago! How did it help mankind back then? And does it still help us in Singapore today?

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math this week?
🌟 Division of whole tens (ie, a 2-digit number with a "0" in the ones place) by a 1-digit number
🌟 Quotient and Remainder

In Part 1 of Unit 3, we take a look at what it means to divide whole tens into groups by looking at each whole ten as a single unit or by breaking them up into smaller units. We also practised to familiarise with our division working method, which shall be very crucial for longer dividends. In the second part of this unit, we continued to solve division sentences which do not divide evenly and now give us a quotient and and a remainder, which is can then be expressed as a fraction or a decimal.

In our Math Plus story this week, we discovered an interesting fact, that the paper we use for our print and copy machines use descending paper sizes that are just halved. If we continuously halved a number, will it ever become zero, CM Level 4-ers? Have a think about it. ❓🤔

Hope you're having a great start to your June school break, we'll see you next week! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

🔎🔢📣 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math this week?
🌟 Making the Same Figure
🌟 Counting the Number of Building Blocks Used

For our last workbook for the term, we returned to developing our spatial awareness in Geometry. This week, we explored the differences between plane figures and solid figures. We also counted the number of building blocks it takes to form a 3-dimensional structure. We thought about the blocks that we can see because they are unblocked, and we also considered the blocks that we could not see because they were blocked from our view.

CM Step 3-ers, was it easy to count the number of blocks in your head without actually making the solid figures? How did you do it?

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

🔎🔢📣 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math this week?
🌟 Calculation with Units of Volume
🌟 Estimating Volume

This week, we solidified our learning of the units of volume by knowing how to correctly read numerical representations of volume along with their units of measurement. We learnt how to identify identical volumes expressed in different units of volume. In the second half of our unit, we honed some very important skills in rounding and estimation.

CM Level 4-ers, other than volume, what do you think you can use your rounding and estimation skills for? Say, adding 999,000 and 8,999,999. Could you roughly estimate what the answer would be by rounding and calculating? In what areas of life do you think this skill might come in handy?

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math in this topic?
🌟 Dividing up Big Circles by Drawing Smaller Circles
🌟 Dividing up Big Circles by Drawing Lines

In the first part of the unit, we divided larger circles into several sections by drawing smaller circles fully within the larger circle. What a fun introduction to subsets! We also practised counting multiple subsets created by smaller circles in a larger circle. In the second part of the last unit, we practised dividing larger circles into given segments by drawing straight lines across, such dividing a larger circle into 7 segments with 3 lines.

Which game did you find easier this week, CM Level 4-ers? Dividing your large circle with smaller circles or with straight lines?

We'll see you next weekend! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

Welcome back to Term 2 of our Creative Math classes!

✨ 🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math this week?
🌟 Multiplication of a 3-digit number by a 1-digit number without regrouping
🌟 Multiplication of a 3-digit number by a 1-digit number with regrouping

For the first workbook of our new term, we delve into Multiplication of 3 digit numbers with a single digit number. By first understanding the concrete concept of quantity multiplication, we were able to understand the logic behind our working. In the first half of the unit, we worked on simple quantities that did not require grouping. Once we solidified that knowledge, we then worked on numbers that did require regrouping of quantities in the multiplication process.

CM Level 4-ers, in class, we worked out a few exercises this week that tested us on working out multiplication problems mentally. Are you able to continue working on your mental exercises throughout the week? As they say, Practice makes Better! 🏆🏅

We'll see you next week! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

Welcome back to Term 2 of our Creative Math classes!

🔎🔢📣 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math this week?
🌟 Recognising and identifying the Hexagon, Trapezium, Parallelogram, Triangle, Square and Rhombus
🌟 Forming hexagons with other regular shapes

We were introduced to 6 different pattern blocks (Hexagon, Trapezium, Parallelogram, Triangle, Square and Rhombus) this week. We tried putting them together in different ways to form complex 2-dimensional forms, such as an apple, a pineapple, and even various animals! In the second half of the lesson, we learnt more about shapes, colour, counting, number, estimation and measurements. Interacting with pattern blocks are a way of introducing to young children the early steps of problem solving. 🤓🔻🟪♦️

Look around you every day, can you "see" pattern blocks all around you, CM Step 3-ers? 💪🏻 Let your teachers know!

Hope you enjoyed your first lesson of the term and we'll see you next week! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈"

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Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math this week?
🌟 Multiplication of a 2-digit number by a 2-digit number using algorithm
🌟 Division of a 2-digit number (with a "0" in the ones place) by a 1-digit number

This week, we continued to explore the relationship of multiplying concrete quantities with multiplication of numbers. We worked on solving multiplication problems using just graph paper!

In our Math Plus story this week, we discovered a pattern to numbers that appears to be "magic", but it is in fact based on the principles of multiplication. Are you able to impress friends and family with your mental calculations, CM Level 4-ers? 😎

Enjoy the start of your June school break, we'll see you next week! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math in this topic?
🌟 Recognising and identifying the Hexagon, Trapezium, Parallelogram, Triangle, Square and Rhombus
🌟 Forming hexagons with other regular shapes
🌟 Making a shape in various ways using pattern blocks
🌟 Identifying quadrilaterals and making them using pattern blocks

In this topic of Geometry, we were introduced to Pattern Blocks in this workbook which led us through a variety of mathematical experiences - from symmetry, patterns to fractional parts and equivalence in angles and dimensions. Pattern blocks facilitate in helping us grasp concepts in shapes, colour, counting, number and measurements, strengthening our abilities in spatial reasoning and enhancing our creative thinking!

CM Step3-ers, if you saw a complex shape, could you deconstruct it into simple geometric shapes? Can we use our new Mathematical ability in art and drawing? 🖍🎨🖌

We'll see you next weekend! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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"Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math this week?
🌟 Division of a 2-digit number (with a number in the ones place) by a 1-digit number
🌟 Checking Division (e.g. multiply the quotient by the number being divided and then add the remainder)

In this last unit of Book 4, we continued to work on solving division sentences by decomposing larger numbers into groups of smaller and more easily divisible numbers. We also learnt the importance of working backwards with multiplication to sharpen our abilities of self-correction. The ability to self-correct is a crucial Sub-conscious Learning Ability that we seek to enhance in all our CM students.

One of the most important learning habits we can develop, CM Level 4-ers, is the ability to self-correct our work. Can you imagine if a pharmacist was careless in dispensing medicine? Or if a dentist was careless when pulling out the correct tooth?!😬  How important is it to maintain a habit of careful work and self-correction?

We'll see you next week! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈"

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Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math in this topic?
🌟 Adding 1-digit numbers
🌟 Adding and Subtracting 1-digit numbers

In the second week of our Operation Set workbook, we extended our knowledge of addition stories by practising creating addition sentences from pictures. We learnt that we need to use the Mathematical plus and equals signs in our addition sentences. In the second half of our lesson, we discovered the relationship between minuends, subtrahends, and the difference.

Are you able to create your own addition stories at home, CM Step 3-ers? Let your teacher know when you see her at the next lesson!

We'll see you next weekend! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math in this topic?
🌟 Identifying the center and radius of a circle
🌟 Drawing circles with the use of a compass

This week we learnt how to identify the center of a circle and its radius. We also learnt how to draw them with our manipulatives consisting of compass rods and a compass board. In the second part of our unit, we learnt how to use a compass to draw circles, and we learnt how to draw identically-sized circles side by side, just touching each other on their circumference.

How would you do it if you were tasked to draw a circle larger than a building, CM Level 4-ers? What would you use?

Have a think through the week and let your teacher know when you see them next week! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math in this topic?
🌟 Re-sort the data by another attribute from the sorted data
🌟 Organise the sorted data in a table

In our second lesson with our super fun Sorting Set, we learnt how to take a set of data already extracted for a common attribute, and go through a second layer of sorting by identifying another set of attributes. The children have learnt how to identify a sub-set. In our last unit of the workbook, the children are introduced to rows and columns in a data table and its header, which is a row at the top of a table used to label each column. They also learnt how the first column can be used to contain headings for each row.

Using your items found at home, CM Step 3-ers, are you able to sort and re-sort them, and create your own data table?

Please share what you've done with your teachers! We'll see you next weekend! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈

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Dear Parents,

✨🌸 Here's a quick recap on what your child learnt in Creative Math class this week! 🌸✨

What did we discover in Creative Math in this topic?
🌟 Writing 1-digit addition sentences
🌟 Writing 1-digit subtraction sentences

We started off unit 1 by learning about word problems and understanding the meaning of addition. Our emphasis was on reading the problem, drawing objects and counting and adding to solve the equation. In the second unit, we learnt the concept of zero, expressed in numeral form as '0', as well as the meaning of subtraction. We then practised our use of Math language in "one more" and "one less".

Can you think of a subtraction story at home, for example can you create a subtraction story at breakfast, CM Step 3-ers?

Let your teacher know. We'll see you next weekend! 😍🥰

📬 PlayFACTO Enrichment Team 🌈