What is Singapore Math? FAQ Of Parents

Singapore math is a highly effective teaching method that Singapore's Ministry of Education introduced in the 1980s for their public schools. The approach was introduced in the American curriculum in 1998 and is widely adopted worldwide.

Singapore Math  Major Concepts 

There are two significant concepts under the Singapore Math method: the Part-whole concept and the Comparison concept.

The Part-Whole Concept

Under this concept, teachers use concrete objects to help students understand the part-whole relationship. After visualizing the part-whole relationships, the students can put these relationships in rectangular bars.

For example, “If Janet has 2 Apples and Lydia has 3, how many apples do they have in total?"

Students can learn to solve this problem with concrete objects such as dummy apples. Let the students have three apples for Lydia and 2 for Janet, and ask them to put them together to find the total.

Once they are comfortable counting concrete objects, teach them to draw pictures of the apples within rectangular boxes to illustrate an equation; 3+2=5.

In the next step, they can learn to draw the boxes without objects and eventually draw a single bar representing the larger and minor parts of the equation.

After mastering the concept of addition through such an example, the students will learn how to apply the same idea or notion to solve other similar math problems.

The Comparison Concept

In this concept, students are required to use concrete objects to compare two or more quantities. Once the students visualize how much one quantity is greater than another, they can use bars to show the difference in quantity.

The part-whole and comparison concepts can be applied to all four major math concepts. Once the students understand both concepts, they will learn how to use them in other math problems, such as decimals and fractions.

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