nsmi teaching through problem solving
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Keynote
Teaching Through Problem Solving Make Textbook Pages Come Alive
Yeap Ban Har
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key focus singapore
mathematics of
problem solving Learning Standards
Divide the square into 4
equal parts
Divide the square into 4
equal parts
Divide the square into 4
equal parts
Divide the square into 4
equal parts
Divide the square into 4
equal parts
Divide the square into 4
equal parts
Pathlight School, Singapore
My Pals Are Here! Maths (Second Edition)
Singapore Math Institute, Hawaii
Initial Concrete
Experience
Subsequent Pictorial
Representation
Eventual Symbolic
Representation
My Pals Are Here! Maths (Second Edition)
St Edward’s School, Florida
Eventual Symbolic
Representation
My Pals Are Here! Maths (Second Edition)
St Edward’s School, Florida
St Edward’s School, Florida
Grade 2
concrete pictorial abstract
Primary Mathematics (U.S. Edition)
It does not show
half. What does it
show then?
It does not show
fourth. What does it
show then?
F R A C T I O N opportunities for
differentiation
Primary Mathematics (U.S. Edition)
problem solving thinking
conceptual understanding
12
8
9
6
6
4
3
2
??
1
12
6
??
3
12
6
??
2
12
6
Method 1
Method 2
8
6
4
3
Method 3
8
1
4
1
11
10
9
8
What if …?
Method 1
Method 2
Write all as twelfth
Method 3
Compare to half
6 2 = 3
6 2 = 3
3
113
4
33
6 2 = 3
Primary Mathematics (Standards Edition)
problem solving thinking
conceptual understanding