08 December 2025
At Matrix Math, we provide an engaging and detailed learning experience for your child. Matrix Math Tuition programme focuses on essential concepts that will further strengthen their mathematical foundation. The lesson synopsis gives parents a clear preview of the topics and problem-solving skills that will be covered in class. At Matrix Math, we ensure that each lesson is designed to build confidence and mastery in math, preparing students for success in both school and beyond.
This week, students will continue learning about Numbers to 10, with a focus on the Part–Whole Concept. Through guided and independent exercises, students will practise identifying parts and wholes in simple problem sums involving addition and subtraction.
Key learning objectives:
Understand the relationship between parts and wholes.
Use addition to find the whole when two parts are given.
Use subtraction to find a missing part when the whole and one part are known.
Apply the part–whole concept to everyday examples, such as counting objects, fruits, and animals.
This lesson helps build a strong foundation in number sense and prepares students to solve more complex problem sums in the coming weeks.
This week, students will revise two key concepts:
1. Part–Whole Concept
Students will solve questions involving finding the total, finding a missing part, and working with two or three quantities. These exercises also further strengthen the students’ addition and subtraction between 3-digit numbers.
2. Ordinal Numbers
Students will practise interpreting positions in queues and class lists, as well as counting rows in front or behind to find the total number of rows.
This lesson helps build strong number sense and logical reasoning skills.
This week, students will learn two key problem-solving skills:
1. Working Backwards
Students will work out starting amounts by reversing the steps in problems involving giving away, using, adding, or removing quantities.
2. Comparison of Quantities
Students will solve questions involving “more than,” “less than,” and total-and-difference relationships.
These skills help students handle multi-step word problems with clarity and confidence.
This week, students will focus on two key topics:
1. Comparison of Quantities
Students will solve word problems involving:
“More than” and “less than” relationships
Comparing costs, heights, lengths, and quantities
Multi-step comparison problems with units (cm, m, $, etc.)
These questions strengthen logical reasoning and model-based thinking.
2. Estimation & Approximation
Students will practise rounding numbers to the nearest tens, hundreds, and thousands, and identifying possible smallest or largest values after rounding.
They will also estimate answers for multiplication without full computation.
This lesson helps students develop accuracy, number sense, and confidence in solving comparison problems.
This week, students will learn two advanced problem-solving concepts:
1. Difference Concept
Students will solve questions where two people or objects start with the same amount, but experience different daily changes (e.g., reading pages, using water, filling tanks).
They will also handle scenarios where one starts later, creating a new total difference.
This builds strong logical reasoning around rate differences and cumulative changes.
2. Replacement Concept
Students will work with “either–or” situations, such as:
“Enough to buy 6 books or 24 notebooks”
“2 durians cost as much as 3 watermelons”
They will learn to convert items to the same unit before solving, including:
Finding how many items can be bought
Determining leftover amounts
Calculating the value or capacity of one item
These concepts strengthen algebraic thinking and prepare students for upper-primary heuristics.
This week, students will focus on division of fractions and its applications. They will learn how to divide:
a fraction by a whole number,
a whole number by a fraction, and
a fraction by another fraction,
using the Keep-Change-Flip method.
Students will also apply these skills to word problems involving sharing, packing, rates, and model-based reasoning.
