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Standardised tests/Dumcondras etc.

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  • #32
    Hedgecutter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,083 ✭✭✭Hedgecutter


    Thanks guys. I get those books.


  • #33
    James Bond Junior
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,140 ✭✭✭James Bond Junior


    Hedgecutter wrote: »
    I asked one question and you formed your own WRONG opinion.

    I think I understand why the school may have given you the run around.


  • #34
    A Law
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 898 ✭✭✭A Law


    You are looking for sample papers which will influence what you teach to your child. Therefore you will be teaching to the test, even if you think you won't. The drumcondra test is a test of reading and comprehension, your child can improve on these by reading books and being read books for one. With the sigma it covers almost all aspects of the maths curriculum including curriculums in future years so making sure they understand their homework and the maths they did in school is a good start.


  • #35
    byhookorbycrook
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 12,550 Mod ✭✭✭✭byhookorbycrook


    There aren't sample papers for this very reason. I think some parents can over estimate these tests, they are not meant to be taken in isolation and are only a picture of how the child performs on one day. New Wave Mental Maths can be good over the summer, if a child needs extra support, but otherwise, I'd focus on practical maths,as already mentioned.Language is a huge thing- so try to use the correct terms when you speak of anything maths related.

    Measures/weights- baking, cooking, Use fractions, for dividing things into halves and quarters.,A standard six, nine, or 12 bun tin is great for addition and/or multiplication skills. Skip counting is brilliant too! Physically handling things and saying if they are heavier/lighter than 1kg, more than a litre, measuring heights- human and say, sunflowers for starters. and so on.

    Keeping a diary and recording dates/times in both analogue and digital formats, planning what T.V. programmes to watch and seeing how long they will take,reading bus or train timetables.

    2-d and 3-d shapes all around them, terms like vertices etc and the relationship between 2-d/3-d shapes. Tessellation and symmetry through art, angles in the environment- right angles, great than a right angle, straight angles, clockwise, anti-clockwise.

    I'm sure you will be able to come up with lots more, but if a child were to be familiar with all of the above over the summer.


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