lecture|

average learners, high achievement

yeap ban har | marshall cavendish institute

yeapbanhar@gmail.com | www.banhar.blogspot.com

westin westminster | colorado

high achievement

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Indonesia

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“Upon separation from Malaysia in 1965, Singapore

was faced with … high levels of unemployment and

poverty. 70% of Singapore’s households lived in badly

overcrowded conditions, and a third of its people

squatted in slums on the city fringes. Unemployment

averaged 14%, GDP per capita was less than $2,700,

and half of the population was illiterate.”

Country

GDP per capita in current USD

2012

Singapore 60,400

Malaysia 16,900

Thailand 10,100

Philippines 4,400

“Upon separation from Malaysia in 1965, Singapore

was faced with … high levels of unemployment and

poverty. 70% of Singapore’s households lived in badly

overcrowded conditions, and a third of its people

squatted in slums on the city fringes. Unemployment

averaged 14%, GDP per capita was less than $2,700,

and half of the population was illiterate.”

critical success factors

| Ministry of Education, Singapore (1991, 2000, 2006, 2012)

instruction and assessment emphasized problem solving e.g. anchor task

Mathematics is “an excellent vehicle for

the development and improvement of a

person’s intellectual competence”.

|Ministry of Education, Singapore (2006)

thinkingschool learningnations

big ideas in singapore math

number sense

visualization

generalization

research-based bruner | dienes | polya |vygotsky | skemp | CPA Approach

emphasis on choice of situations

by varying the examples carefully students’

learning path is well constructed

Based on Dienes’

idea of variability

emphasis on

choice of

situations

pies

water

emphasis on choice of

situations

shells

pies

emphasis on linking

instrumental understanding

relational understanding

Based on Skemp’s

work on types of understanding

Find the value of 16 of ¾ .

put it together

conclusion | the actor