Singapore Math Parent Guide: Understanding Your Child's Mathematics Experience (English Edition)

What is ‘Singapore Math®’? And what makes it different from the math programs you used at your child’s age?

The learning of math has gone beyond memorization of mathematical facts and procedures. It helps children acquire a deep understanding of foundational math while also developing essential 21st-century skills and attitudes. Our children become self-directed learners, confident collaborators, curious innovators, and bold thinkers. They become effective consumers and creators of math.

Singapore’s students consistently achieve at the highest levels in international assessments of math performance. This accomplishment leads many US educators to ask why. The answer is Singapore Math®, a carefully constructed instructional approach that helps students develop conceptual understandings through strategic problem solving.

This guide uses straightforward language, simple illustrations, and sample mathematical problems to explain the key instructional approaches that are fundamental to the Singapore math curriculum. It also offers additional problems that parents can use with their children to come to a deeper understanding of the curriculum. In short, this guide helps parents employ the tried and true teaching approaches of Singapore Math® at home.

This guide is also available in print.