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Singapore Maths for Parents at Sandton
1. What Your Child
Learn in
Mathematics
S e m i n a r fo r Pa re n t s
Yeap Ban Har
Marshall Cavendish Institute
Singapore
yeapbanhar@gmail.com
Slides are available at
www.banhar.blogspot.com
St Gabriel’s Primary
School, Singapore
Marymount Convent
School, Singapore
3. Land
270 sq miles
700 sq km
People
5.3 million
GDP per capita
1965 USD500
2011 USD50 000
in current USDJunyuan Secondary
School, Singapore
introduction
4.
5. High achievement was not a given. In
1960, among 30 615 candidates who
sat for the first Primary School Leaving
Examination, 45% of the candidates
passed.
Keon Ming Public School, Singapore
Today, about
the same
proportion
achieve the
highest grade
in each of the
four subjects
tested.
6.
7. Score 1960-1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s
500 Japan Japan
Korea
Hong Kong
Japan
Korea
Singapore
Hong Kong
Japan
Korea
Hong Kong
Singapore
400 Thailand Singapore
Thailand
The Philippines
Malaysia
Thailand
Malaysia
Thailand
300 Indonesia
The Philippines
Indonesia
The Philippines
Reference: E. Hanusek, D. Jamison, E. Jamison & L. Woessmann (2008)
All major international tests (literacy, science and mathematics) between 1964
and 2003 were placed on a common scale. Selected countries shown in the table.
8.
9. 1992
Introduction of Problem-
Solving Curriculum
1997
Thinking Schools
Learning Nation
1982
Introduction of Singapore mathematics
textbooks as they are known today.
Mathematics is “an excellent
vehicle for the development
and improvement of a person’s
intellectual competence”.
Ministry of Education Singapore 2006
10. We started off badly but
we have managed to help
our students in learning
math.
27. A number is of a second number.
The sum of the two numbers is 120.
5
3
8 units = 120
1 units = 120 8
1 units = 15
120
80 40
The smaller number is 3 x 15 = 45.
The larger number is 5 x 15 = 75.
28. Edgewood Elementary School, New
York
Box B contains twice as
many books as Box A.
Box C contains 20 more
books than Box A.
Together, the three boxes
contains 116 books.
29. SingaporeMath
Box B contains twice as
many books as Box A.
Box C contains 20 more
books than Box A.
Together, the three boxes
contains 116 books.
20Box C
Box A
Box B
116
30. SingaporeMath
Box B contains twice as
many books as Box A.
Box C contains 20 more
books than Box A.
Together, the three boxes
contains 116 books.
20Box C
Box A
Box B
116 – 20 = 116 – 16 – 4 = 96
4 units = 96
4 units = 80 + 16
1 units = 96 4 =
24
24 24
24
Box A ….