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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have taught Primary Mathematics (Singapore national math curriculum) for 3 years. It is a great, conceptual, interesting program. It also seemed to make my students really enjoy the math that they were doing. They got interested and wanted to know more and extend their learning.

That being said, there is a huge gaping hole in implementation in the US. I was never able to overcome this issue. In Singapore, nearly all students attend kumon-type drill/cram schools in their free time. They know their facts backwards and forwards and upside down.

Singapore Primary Mathematics assumes kids are doing this and the whole operation starts to fall apart around 3-4th grade if your students don’t know their facts lightning quick. You almost need to run like a drill workbook concurrently along with it…but that takes the fun and high interest out of it. [/quote]

But Primary Math comes with a workbook to accompany the textbook, no? Seems to just be an issue of sufficient time/homework.[/quote]
DP. The parent who purchased. The workbook to me won’t accomplish that. It reinforces what you learned but it doesn’t emphasize fact acquisition so you would probably need to do something additional. Like Kumon. [/quote]
APS used Reflex, an iPad app, to drill math facts.[/quote]

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