08/12/2025
Is ‘Singapore math’ a Better Way to Teach the Subject? -The Baltimore Sun
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 “divide,” a group of about 20 teachers from private schools spanning Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia, stacked cubes and folded notecards to find solutions. The answer? Two-thirds of cake per platter. But the problem doesn’t end there.
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/singapore-math-better-way-teach-080000414.html
Top scores for Singapore’s students
The 2022 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), which tests 15-year-olds, showed “some 41% of students in Singapore were top performers in mathematics.” The United States had 7% top performers in math.
The trend holds for younger students too. On the 2023 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, which tests fourth- and eighth-graders in those subjects, Singapore had international top scores for both grades, while the U.S. had around average scores at both levels.
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BALTIMORE -- 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 “divide,” a group of about 20 teachers from private schools spanning Pennsylvania, Ma...
