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1 Are you Serious About math ? | [26/9/12 12:15:46 AM]Home Review AdvertorialAre you Serious About Math? As Singaporean parents, we must all gothrough the ritual of getting our childrenpast the PSLE, their rite of passage tonext phase of no hurdle is more feared than much have been discussed About that paper that it is difficult to separate factfrom fiction. After a particularly bruising paper in 2009, students and parents alikecame online to to cry foul at the seemingly impossible mentalgymnastics that our children had been subjected to.

2 Mediacorp's BlogTV even ran anepisode pitting a banker against a P6 student in solving some math the hubbub, one fact is clear. Today's PSLE math is different from what weparents went through ourselves many decades ago. Its new focus is on the analyticalprocess in problem solving, rather than procedural. Doing well in math is not justabout rote learning and memorisation of times tables, formulas, and step-by-stepsolutions. To solve the problems in the math paper within the given time, studentsmust understand and recognise different classes of problems, and apply heuristics andmental short-cuts to efficiently discover the achieve this higher-order of cognitiveprocessing, children are trained, as earlyas Primary One, in the visualisation ofproblem constructs, using graphicalmodels to represent components in mathproblems.

3 Such techniques allow studentsto better understand the problems, whichincreases their ability to solve them. In fact, the pedagogy used for SingaporeMathematics is so effective that it has gainedworldwide recognition and laurels. SingaporeMathematics is ranked amongst the top inthe world. Many cities in countries such asUS and Israel have implemented theSingapore Mathematics pedagogy with greatsuccess. While we may have concerns withour children's ability to solve math problemsin school, we should also understand that ourchildren are truly in a world-class educationprogramme!

4 Of course, this is no consolation for parentsof children who are failing math . It is timewe get Serious About Mathematics. Asparents, many of us are ill-equipped to guideand support their children themselves, on this novel approach to problem solving. Itmay be necessary for us to seek help from professional service providers with the RECENT FORUM TOPICSQ&A - PSLE math [Game] Debate of the Sexes -Results at 9pm(Event)(Event)(Event)(Event)NAVIGATIO NP opular contentUSER LOGINU sername: *Password: *Create new accountRequest new passwordUPCOMING EVENTSHari Raya Haji(31 days)Deepavali(49 days)Primary and SecondaryTerm 4 School Holidays for2012(53 days)Christmas Day(91 days)morePOLLAre you in favour of schoolsholding supplementaryclasses during holidays?

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7 Without making judgement on their effectiveness, prudent parents must evaluatethese services with great caution. The truth is, there is no magic "pill". Successcomes from hardwork, and hardwork must be properly guided and supported in aconsistent manner throughout the years leading to the our search for reliable service providers,we found a unique establishment down at Henry Park. Short for thewhacky phrase "Seriously Addictive math ",we determined that is indeedserious About making Singapore math intoa fun and holistic experience for ourchildren as they master the essentialtechniques of solving problem sums,progressing at their own offers a weekly lesson plan comprising up to 75mins of class-based instructionand take-home assignments where students are to complete a specific number ofpages per day.

8 While this is atypical of many similar services, what stands out arethe 's curriculum is fully aligned with MOE's mathematics curriculum. There are 6 Levels, each mapping to the math syllabus covered inPrimary One to Six. has produced well over 30,000 worksheets,divided into modular topics with increasing levels of worksheets are carefully crafted as directed by an NIE-qualifiedteacher who is a founder of Worksheets for preschoolers haveinteresting colour graphics, while those for Upper Primary students aresimilar to the problem sums that they would encounter in are some samples of preschool and Primary One worksheets.

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