nsmsi day 3 session 1
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lecture|
average learners, high achievement
yeap ban har | marshall cavendish institute
[email protected] | www.banhar.blogspot.com
westin westminster | colorado
high achievement
Singapore
Malaysia
Thailand
Indonesia
International
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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