Saturday, June 30, 2007

Singapore Mathematics: From the past to the future

In three publications, Lee Peng Yee, Associate Professor in the Mathematics and Mathematics Education (MME) Academic Group of the National Institute of Education (sole teacher training institute in Singapore),

1. offers a 60-year (1945 - 2005) history of mathematics syllabi and textbooks in Singapore (Proceedings of The First International Mathematics Curriculum Conference, 11-13 November 2005, Chicago).

2. discusses mathematics for teaching vs. mathematics for teachers in an editorial published in The Mathematics Educator, vol. 16#2, Fall 2006.

3. explains what is new in the new O level mathematics syllabus.

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