Mathematical Equations
Mathematics was one of the strongest subjects of Rafflesians in the 1960s. In Sec 3B Science there were two kinds of Mathematics taught, Elementary and Additional Mathematics. Elementary Mathematic was taught by Mr Puhaindran and Additional Mathematics by Mr Leo Chin Fook. In 1967, during the Cambridge Certificate or O Level examinations, 132 of our cohort obtained A1 in E Maths and 22 obtained A1 in A Maths, a rare feat at that time. Puhaindran was also the sports secretary and the 2101 Scoutmaster. He was very well respected, feared even, by the boys. He appeared very stern and thus no one in the class dared to be up to any mischiefs when he was teaching. Actually, he was a very personable man, easy to talk too and to make long lasting friendships with. To this day, the ex-scouts kept in touch with him. We will meet with him from time to time and his memory and mental faculty very lucid so that good scouting days stories could be retold. However, Mr Puhaindran’s teachi...