Join us this summer for a unique, interactive, hands-on learning experience for K-6 Teachers, Coaches and Math Specialists. Experience two days of focused, content-based instruction on how to best use the Singapore Math approach!
Are you…
- A teacher new to the Singapore approach to math instruction?
- Looking to refresh and strengthen your math teaching skills?
- At a school adopting or upgrading its math curriculum?
- Hoping to bring powerful Singapore best practices into what you already use
- Curious what’s behind Singapore’s remarkable success in math education?
If so — it’s time to Jumpstart your instruction with us!
This hands-on learning experience covers the essential elements of Singapore’s highly acclaimed math approach, including effective strategies, number sense development, model drawing, and lesson design.
Beyond the math content, you’ll also gain practical tools to use right away — from meaningful assessment practices to assigning and reviewing work with purpose, plus strategies to both remediate and extend learning so every student can grow.
New this year! Join us for the Elevate Your Singapore Math Practice— an intensive two-day program for Math Leaders
Designed to help you envision, create, refine and support a robust Singapore math program at your school, this impactful workshop equips math coaches, interventionists, aspiring math leaders and building leaders, and administration to strengthen and scale high-quality math pedagogy across their school.
Sessions will focus on three high-impact strands:
- Elevating Pedagogical Excellence: Lead impactful professional learning that transforms teacher practice.
- Driving Teacher Growth: Implement a system for targeted feedback and differentiated support that maximizes instructional effectiveness.
- Designing Cohesive Systems: Build powerful, sustainable frameworks for intervention, core instruction, and enrichment.
Choose your adventure! Attend breakout sessions for coaches, interventionists, and classroom math leaders or for principal and building leaders.
Walk away with practical tools to support teachers and drive student achievement. Leave ready to lead with clarity and confidence.
Limited availability ensures dedicated networking opportunities, personalized coaching, and a highly collaborative experience.
Why attend?
Singapore’s approach to math education is much different from curricula commonly taught in American schools. For this reason, teachers need a solid understanding of Singapore’s pedagogy to deliver instruction.
Since 2008, Math Champions’ Teacher-Trainers have helped thousands of teachers understand and effectively teach elementary mathematics. The Jumpstart Your Singapore Math® program is based on training methods refined over the past decade through our work with more than 300 schools and more than 200 seminars for educators.
This workshop is for current and potential users of:
- Dimensions Math
- Primary Math
- Math in Focus
- Eureka/EngageNY
- Think! Mathematics
- Anyone interested in incorporating these techniques into their own classroom, regardless of their current curriculum!
Jumpstart Your Singapore Math Instruction Overview:
Day One
The morning begins with a deep dive into the Singapore approach, including the pedagogy and number sense components.
After lunch, be sure to bring your Teacher’s Guides! We’ll break out into groups analyzing your specific Singapore curricula and planning hands-on lessons for your grade level that you can take right back to your classroom.
Don’t have materials yet? We’ve got you covered! We will have some books or digital access for many curriculums available at the session.
Day Two
The morning begins with a focus on differentiation with Singapore Math, then…
Choose from differentiated sessions focusing on K-2 and 3-6 content includes mental math strategies, multi-step word problems, and advanced model drawing.
After lunch, choose a session for K-2 or 3-6 focusing on number sense and operations.
(Denver also will include 6-8 options. See the full schedule below)
Learn from the Best
Take advantage of this unique opportunity to learn directly from acclaimed trainers and experts in the Singapore Maths approach.
Cassy Turner
Cassy is an author, teacher, trainer, and coach who has been passionate about mathematics education since 2001. The founder of Math Champions Professional Development, she has worked with over 300 schools on six continents to help teachers improve math instruction.
In addition, Cassy is part of the core writing team developing Dimensions Math, a Pre-K through Grade 5 curriculum based on Singapore’s pedagogy as well as a co-author of a math training manual approved by the State of California. She speaks at math conferences around the world and, for the past nine years, has hosted the Jumpstart Your Singapore Math workshops for teachers. She has served on the Boards of Liberty Common School (CO), Kaleidoscope School (AZ), and the Middle School Mathematics Institute (MN).
Cassy is a devoted champion of elementary mathematics.
Susan Resnick
We are thrilled to have Susan return to the workshops this year. She brings over 30 years of education experience as a Math Teacher, Special Education teacher, Gifted and Talented Coordinator, Principal, District Math Coordinator, and national and international staff developer for mathematics instruction (whew!).
Additionally, Susan is the author of several books, including Singapore Math: Fact Fluency, Math in Focus 2020 edition, Math in Focus Performance Tasks, and Primary Mathematics 2022. She presents regularly both internationally and locally including at NCSM, NCTM, Greg Tang Math, and at the Math in Focus National Institutes.
Susan works with passion to bring an understanding of differentiation and the principles of good instructional practices to the world of math teaching.
What attendees say about our trainings:
Registration Details
Daily Schedule:
8:00 AM – Registration and Coffee
8:30 AM – Sessions start
11:45 AM – Lunch is provided!
3:30 PM – Closing
Investment:
$595 per person for two full days of instruction. For every five registrants, we offer one additional complimentary registration!
Want to send a larger group or pay by PO/check? Email: Training@MathChampions.com
What’s Included?
…You mean besides all the great learning?!
- A comprehensive resource handbook
- Coffee and lite breakfast each morning
- On-site lunch provided each day
- Certificate of Attendance for 12 clock hours.
- Free parking
Locations:
Southern California, CA | July 16-17, 2026
Heschel School
17701 Devonshire St, Northridge, CA 91325
Tampa, FL | July 23 – 24, 2026
St. Mary’s Episcopal Day School
2101 S Hubert Ave, Tampa, FL 33629
Denver, CO | July 27 – 28, 2026
Heritage Heights Academy
20050 East Smoky Hill Road
Centennial, CO 80015
Heritage Heights Academy
20050 East Smoky Hill Road Centennial, CO 80015
Jumpstart Your Singapore Math Instruction Schedule:
Introduction and Overview of the Singapore Math approach and its Key Components
- The Philosophy of mathematics instruction in Singapore: Educators will leave with an understanding of why the Singapore approach is gaining popularity around the world. We will explore Singapore’s teaching model and key ideas behind the curriculum.
- Methods used in the Singapore curriculum: Learn how to plan and deliver effective lessons, understanding and incorporating key components and Tasks to engage learners through independent thinking and problem-solving.
- Explore number sense and mental math strategies: We will take an in-depth look at number sense and its importance through the use of number bonds and mental math strategies.
- Teach concepts to mastery: Explore the coherent sequence and how concepts build and develop mastery throughout the grades.
- Use the concrete-pictorial-abstract approach to teach place value and operations.
After lunch, focus on lesson planning
- Breakout groups by curricular materials to help you become familiar with your specific materials. Learn Dimensions Math from Cassy Turner, the TG author, and learn Math in Focus and Primary Math 2022 from Susan Resnick, the US Consultant to both programs!
Planning to Teach Singapore Math
Begin with a mini-session on Differentiation with Singapore Math
Then the rest of the day, choose your own adventure!
Breakout 1 Sessions
Kindergarten through Second Grade
Focus on specific strategies numeracy skills developed in Kindergarten through second grade. Take a dive into best practices to teach early concepts with depth and mastery.
Third through Sixth Grade
Learn to use manipulatives and visual models to develop number sense and fluency with basic operations.
Sixth through Eighth Grade – Denver workshop only
Focus on strategies for building Algebraic reasoning using the C-P-A approach including integers.
Teachers in grades 7-8 are welcome to attend and learn about the foundations of Singapore Math in Los Angeles and Tampa, but content from those levels won’t be specifically addressed.
After lunch, Breakout 2 Sessions
Kindergarten through Second Grade
Work with manipulatives and visual models to teach addition and subtraction and early computation. Learn strategies to reach diverse learners and explore best practices to teach early concepts with depth and mastery.
Third through Fifth Grade
Focus on problem-solving and practice with basic and advanced word problems that can be solved with bar models (Also known as tape diagrams).
Sixth through Eighth Grade – Denver workshop only
Build a conceptual understanding of abstract rate, ratio and percentage concepts by connecting word problems, bar models, and the unitary method to equations.
