Syllabus & guides
Primary maths heuristics, P3 to P6
The problem-solving methods your child is taught for problem sums, from P3 to P6, each with the words that signal it, one real question worked, and how to tell it has clicked.
Give a representation
Turn the words into something you can look at, so the relationship is visible before any arithmetic.
Make a calculated guess
Start from a sensible guess and let what goes wrong tell you where the answer is.
Go through the process
Follow what happens to the quantities, in order, and hold on to the thing that never moved.
Also worth knowing
Taught in Singapore classrooms under their own names, outside the families above.
New to all this? Start with what heuristics are and why they matter, then come back for the individual methods.
PSLE ready, lah.
See which method your child reaches for
StudyLah names the method in every worked solution, so you can tell whether the problem was the method or the arithmetic.