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Edgemont Parents' Evening 2013
1. Singapore Math
a program for parents
Yeap Ban Har
Marshall Cavendish Institute
Singapore
yeapbanhar@gmail.com
Slides are available at
www.banhar.blogspot.com
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4. Land
270 sq miles
700 sq km
introduction
People
5.3 million
GDP per capita
1965 USD500
2012 USD60 000
Junyuan Secondary School, Singapore
in current USD
5.
6. 1982
Introduction of Singapore mathematics
textbooks as they are known today.
1992
Introduction of ProblemSolving Curriculum
1997
Thinking Schools
Learning Nation
Mathematics is “an excellent
vehicle for the development and
improvement of a person’s
intellectual competence”.
Ministry of Education Singapore 2006