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I remember reading here that years ago [b]four MoCo elementary schools tried Singapore Math, all but one school abandoned it within a year or two[/b]. Apparently teachers found them hard to teach. The test score dropped. However, C2.0 is remarkably similar to Singapore math. iIt is just much more awkward and cumbersome with a large dose of reform math flavor. wherever it differed from SM is not an improvement.[/quote]

It was a pilot program. The test scores overall did not drop.

http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/sharedaccountability/reports/2003/SingMathYear2.pdf

This is a very long report from 2005 about using Singapore Math in the US: http://www.air.org/sites/default/files/downloads/report/Singapore_Report_Bookmark_Version1_0.pdf About the pilot in MCPS, it says, "The Montgomery County outcomes were positively correlated with the amount of professional training the staff received. Two Singapore pilot schools availed themselves of extensive professional development and outperformed the controls; two other pilot schools had low staff commitment coupled with low exposure to professional training and were actually outperformed by the controls. Professional training is important in helping teachers understand and explain the nonroutine, multistep problems in the Singapore textbooks. Teachers also need preparation to explain solutions to Singapore problems, which often require students to draw on previously taught mathematics topics, which the Singapore textbook, in contrast to U.S. textbooks, does not reteach."

In my own experience with Singapore Math at home, I think that students would be more successful if they started with it from K or first grade, rather than suddenly coming upon it after several years of a different math curriculum. And I think that the teachers at any grade would also need to start with K or 1 and then work through systematically. [/quote]

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