I’m thoroughly running out of ideas of what to blog these days. I’ve either been brought down to just nonsense prattling or mumbling incoherent thoughts. Let’s see what I’ve been doing these past few days…

Nothing much interesting. I didn’t manage to get any interesting pictures as I used to years back.  Eat, sleep, read, shake my bum-bum once in a while in a feeble attempt to slim down and teach my students.

It’s been a very long time since I’ve touched a textbook with the exception of Ayu’s. It is also a very long time since I’ve did any engineering maths and I had to crack my head on one of the questions imposed to me by one of my students. She was taking A maths.

Now that I’ve thought about it, Malaysia education and Singapore education has no difference. Even though many thought that Singapore education is much higher and better than Malaysia’s I beg to differ.

Singapore education system seems to cram every possible syllabus they could in a period of 10 years to prepare their students for the higher education. Whereas Malaysia education system takes it much slower and polishes those topics which they deem as needed the moment their students is brought into the working world.

There are also certain topics which the Malaysian education system has which Singapore doesn’t cover, most probably because Malaysia has more natural resources thus, teaching their students ways on how to survive in different types of industry that Malaysia has to offer.

However I have to agree that Singapore education system concentrates on more problem solving, brain storming questions and think out of the comfort zone questions. It is very useful as it makes the students think and scramble for all the possible answers instead of having their answers served on a silver platter.

I’ve seen the questions in the Malaysian education system and was quite surprised at how direct the questions were structured instead of the puzzle solving questions. When faced with puzzling questions by just rephrasing the questions, the students were not able to think of the answer even though it is the same question!

Thus, I’ve decided to integrate some of the education syllabus of Singapore for my teaching. It’s been three weeks since I’ve tried it and I’m beginning to see  some good results from my students.

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