By Wong Khoon Yoong, Lee Peng Yee, Berinderjeet Kaur, Foong Pui Yee, Ng Swee Fong
This entire publication is a cutting-edge evaluation of study and practices of arithmetic schooling in Singapore. It lines the interesting trip from the unique improvement of the Singapore arithmetic curriculum within the Nineteen Fifties to the current day, and stories on assorted findings in regards to the Singapore event that aren't available in print. the entire authors are lively arithmetic educators or senior arithmetic lecturers in Singapore, hence including authenticity and strong point to the tales lined during this booklet. the problems they so earnestly discover during this e-book will absolutely be of curiosity to graduate scholars, arithmetic educators, and the foreign arithmetic schooling group.
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