Singapore Math Is “Our Dirty Little Secret”
by CKFOctober 6th, 2010
The following guest post is from Barry Garelick, a national advisor to NYC HOLD, an education advocacy organization that addresses mathematics education in U.S. schools.
The New York Times ran a story on September 30 about Singapore Math being used in some schools in the New York City area. Like many newspaper stories about Singapore Math, this one was no different. It described a program that strangely sounded like the math programs being promoted by reformers of math education, relying on the cherished staples of reform: manipulatives, open-ended problems, and classroom discussion of problems. The only thing the article didn’t mention was that the students worked in small groups.
Those of us familiar with Singapore Math from having used it with our children are
