There was a very interesting article on a Los Angeles school which switched from its old math curriculum to the Singapore math curriculum and the number of students scoring at grade level on a standardized test jumped from 45% to 76% in ONE year.
I knew I liked this curriculum. It states in the article that it is a difficult curriculum to teach. I would have to disagree with this (at least homeschooling with it up to grade 6 level). If you get the home school help teaching version (I get it through Sonlight), everything is explained VERY clearly. Anyhow, if you want to read more, here is the link and an interesting explanation about how this curriculum was actually originally adopted from Russia via China.
Singapore Math have their own website, or you can get it from Sonlight Curriculum. (And no, neither of them have bonuses for referral - unfortunate!) If you are in the US, you can get a US version - so you can learn the metric and imperial measurement systems therefore not having to stay part of the WAM club (We ain't metric). If you want to read an old post we did on switching between math curriculum's you can go here.
Factoid: Singapore is only 250 square miles: the size of Lake Meade - or 1/4 the size of Rhode Island. It is part of the British Commonwealth of Nations. Of course the fact that I once lived there for a year may also have biased my opinion of this math curriculum.
Aussie Kim
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