A recent visitor left this comment: I am part of a team of first grade teachers at my school. We are piloting Singapore Math this year. We are creating assessments and were looking for ready-made assessments to genuinely fit the curriculum. One of the challenges for a classroom teacher using the U.S Edition is that [...]

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From a discussion on the Well-Trained Mind Forums is a question about some the supplemental material available for the Primary Mathematics curriculum: On the (SingaporeMath.com) site there are some supplemental books I don’t recognize, but I can’t tell what they’re for–if they’re new-new or replacing-CWP-new Math Works? i-Excel? Math Express? Brain Maths? I wrote here [...]

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From a discussion on the Well-Trained Mind Forums comes a question about some the supplemental material available for the Primary Mathematics curriculum: On the (SingaporeMath.com) site there are some supplemental books I don’t recognize, but I can’t tell what they’re for–if they’re new-new or replacing-CWP-new Math Works? i-Excel? Math Express? Brain Maths? First, these aren’t [...]

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In Part 1 and 2,  I shared examples from the Teacher’s Guides and textbooks from four sets of materials used in Singapore and the United States. The materials are all from the third grade level: Primary Mathematics U.S. Edition (2003)  from SingaporeMath.com Primary Mathematics Standards Edition (2008)  from SingaporeMath.com My Pals Are Here Maths (2007) [...]

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In Part 1, I shared some examples from the Teacher’s Guide from four sets of materials used in Singapore and the United States. The materials are all from the third grade level: Primary Mathematics U.S. Edition (2003)  from SingaporeMath.com Primary Mathematics Standards Edition (2008)  from SingaporeMath.com My Pals Are Here Maths (2007) obtained in Singapore [...]

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