Overview: Singapore consistently ranks among the top performers in global math assessments such as PISA and TIMSS. Several ...
Editor’s Note: When her school showed declining math scores, Andi Webb, math coach at Alderman Road Elementary School in Fayetteville, NC, decided to implement Singapore math strategies to help ...
Here’s a little math problem: In 2005, just 45% of the fifth-graders at Ramona Elementary School in Hollywood scored at grade level on a standardized state test. In 2006, that figure rose to 76%. What ...
Imagine you’re a character in a math problem. You have three platters, but two cakes. All three platters need to have the same amount of cake. How would you split it? Without even saying the word ...
Bill Turque at The Washington Post writes about one D.C. public school’s decision to adopt the Singapore Math program —and the many challenges that have come with it. Singapore Math, Turque explains, ...
Editor’s note: Bill Jackson was a Paterson, New Jersey math teacher and a district-wide math teacher trainer in Scarsdale, New York. He also provides consulting and teacher training on Singapore or ...
Sally made 500 gingerbread men. She sold 3/4 of them and gave away 2/5 of the remainder. How many did she give away? This was one of the homework questions in Craig Parsley’s fifth-grade class. The ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about education from the inside out. Singapore students topped the 2015 international assessment of math and science known ...
The debut of the Secondary 3 A-Math online math tuition course highlights Odyssey Math Tuition's innovative spirit, firmly rooted in the belief that premium mathematics education should be affordable ...
Editor’s note: Bill Jackson was a Paterson, New Jersey math teacher and a district-wide math teacher trainer in Scarsdale, New York. He also provides consulting and teacher training on Singapore or ...