These are the skills important for later exams such as PSLE or SAT .

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• writing – content-generation. Most untrained writers don’t have enough content.
  • blogging

• writing – vocab. Good writers have a sufficient vocabulary.
• writing – discuss a topic from both sides. Dabao is smart enough to do this.
• (writing – Grammar? not foundation skill at this stage.)
• summarizing
• pinyin
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• basic mental arithmetics
  • multiplication verse. Not fast enough but much better than kids without this training
  • arithmetics within 20. This is the foundation of all addition/subtraction.
• familiarity with numbers.
  • sanity checks
  • quick estimation
  • estimation with pen and paper
  • quick mental arithmetics
  • multiply by 5
  • multiple by 2
  • divide by 2