Box clever: Singapore’s magic formula for maths success
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It sounds crazy but Singapore has shot up the league tables by dropping traditional methods from its maths lessons and getting children to be creative.
The only bit about this that sounds crazy is that ppl wouldn’t think creativity a better way to learn than rote learning. Sigh. Does nobody ever think about how they learn??
I did enjoy this paragraph:
Ling Yuan, head of maths at the Catholic High School in Singapore, was in Britain last week conducting seminars for home educators and maths teachers and visiting schools. She says the content of what is taught in primary maths differs very little to what is in the national curriculum in England, except that children in this country are expected to learn some areas of geometry that are taught to secondary-age children in Singapore.
It’s not often that home educators come before schools in the media 😉 Interesting though that many home educators that I know have known about Singapore maths for ages. Is there a lesson for mainstream schooling there I wonder?
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