Slow math?
JENNIFER S. ALTMAN/The New York Times Students work with numbers in Kerri Gega's fourth grade class, which she teaches using Singapore math, at the Quaker Ridge School in Scarsdale, N.Y. Singapore math, an increasingly popular approach to teaching mathematics, emphasizes visual aids and a slow pace, with kindergartners spending a week on the numbers 1 and 2. |
The New York Times has an interesting article about a new math curriculum making its way to the United States. It's called "Singapore math" or "slow math." By introducing topics slowly and covering them deeply, Singapore has managed to produce consistently top-scoring students.
The pace is so slow, the article says, that teachers spending days teaching children about the number 1. (Here's a little more about the curriculum from the company that makes U.S.