Most folders of the nominees contain achievements in Tagisan ng Talino, a DepEd mental competition, which excludes private schools. January 23 at the Social and Cultural Hall of DepEd Division of Iloilo City was a real Tagisan ng Talino, because in this occassion the best brains of the public and private schools met in the Written Examination component of the screening for the 10 Outstanding Elementary Pupils and Ten Outstanding Secondary School Students of Iloilo.
As usual, the dreaded portion was the Mathematics portion, especially because, this time, examinees were asked/forced to show their computations. No computation, no correct answer. Based on initial results, examinees with documents from MTG and MTAP competitions gave good performances. But sometimes, situational problems could prove tricky.
In high school...
Papano po ba padadaanin ang isang bilogan at manipis na table top sa pintuan, kung ang diameter ng table top ay mas mahaba kesa sa taas o lawak ng pintuan? Yon pong mga nakasagot ng mas mahirap na mga tanong sa Trigo, Geom o Stat, pero halatang hindi pa nakaranas magbuhat ng table top (take note: table top; hindi table o mesa) ay natulala. Hindi daw po talaga puwede.(And because the question was in Pilipino, they wrote in as many Pilipino words na hindi talaga pupuwede.) Papano po ba?
Itanong mo sa mga kasambahay. O sa tambay sa kanto. O sa sikad driver. Na halatang tagabuhat talaga. Sasagutin po kayo, ipasok niyo sa pinto na naka-diagonal. Naka-slant baga. Eh di pasok!
Sa Mathematics, tawag po diyan ay Phytagorean theorem. Dapat buhatin ni Phytagoras!
And only very few knew where kilometer Zero, among the hundreds of kilometer readings besides highways in the island of Panay, is located. And who the hell were Marilyn Esperat, Jocjoc Bolante, and Eliseo de la Paz? What happened to Ilonggo culture and tradition? Are hurubaton, belasyon and luwa as French as Parles Vouz to the examinees? Do high school students know the meaning of recession, the current IN word?
In the elementary level, the examinees showed a lot of promise. Surely the Math problems were what BS Education grads call HOTS problems. HOTS for Higher Order Thinking Skills.
If today is a Friday, what will be the day 100 days from now. We need the remainder. But a calculator do not give an explicit remainder. Again the MTG and MTAP veterans stood out.
We can surmise the effect of computers and other gadgets to our kids. Does anybody read/listen to the news? Sino ba ang tinatawag na mga bagong bayani? Sagot ng marami, yun daw mga doktor na naglilingkod sa kanayunan. Eh di mali ang gobyerno.
But the most surprising observation: The exam was two and a half hours long, starting 9am. And nobody bothered to take their snacks even if their baons were just beside them!@
As usual, the dreaded portion was the Mathematics portion, especially because, this time, examinees were asked/forced to show their computations. No computation, no correct answer. Based on initial results, examinees with documents from MTG and MTAP competitions gave good performances. But sometimes, situational problems could prove tricky.
In high school...
Papano po ba padadaanin ang isang bilogan at manipis na table top sa pintuan, kung ang diameter ng table top ay mas mahaba kesa sa taas o lawak ng pintuan? Yon pong mga nakasagot ng mas mahirap na mga tanong sa Trigo, Geom o Stat, pero halatang hindi pa nakaranas magbuhat ng table top (take note: table top; hindi table o mesa) ay natulala. Hindi daw po talaga puwede.(And because the question was in Pilipino, they wrote in as many Pilipino words na hindi talaga pupuwede.) Papano po ba?
Itanong mo sa mga kasambahay. O sa tambay sa kanto. O sa sikad driver. Na halatang tagabuhat talaga. Sasagutin po kayo, ipasok niyo sa pinto na naka-diagonal. Naka-slant baga. Eh di pasok!
Sa Mathematics, tawag po diyan ay Phytagorean theorem. Dapat buhatin ni Phytagoras!
And only very few knew where kilometer Zero, among the hundreds of kilometer readings besides highways in the island of Panay, is located. And who the hell were Marilyn Esperat, Jocjoc Bolante, and Eliseo de la Paz? What happened to Ilonggo culture and tradition? Are hurubaton, belasyon and luwa as French as Parles Vouz to the examinees? Do high school students know the meaning of recession, the current IN word?
In the elementary level, the examinees showed a lot of promise. Surely the Math problems were what BS Education grads call HOTS problems. HOTS for Higher Order Thinking Skills.
If today is a Friday, what will be the day 100 days from now. We need the remainder. But a calculator do not give an explicit remainder. Again the MTG and MTAP veterans stood out.
We can surmise the effect of computers and other gadgets to our kids. Does anybody read/listen to the news? Sino ba ang tinatawag na mga bagong bayani? Sagot ng marami, yun daw mga doktor na naglilingkod sa kanayunan. Eh di mali ang gobyerno.
But the most surprising observation: The exam was two and a half hours long, starting 9am. And nobody bothered to take their snacks even if their baons were just beside them!@
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