This book offers a detailed look into the how and what of mathematics instruction in Singapore. It presents multiple aspects of mathematics instruction in schools, ranging from the unique instructional core, practices that promote mastery, development of conceptual knowledge through learning experiences, nurturing of positive attitudes, self-regulation of learning and development and use of instructional materials for making connections across mathematical ideas, developing mathematical reasoning, and developing fluency in applying mathematical knowledge in problem solving.The book presents a methodology that is successful in documenting classroom instruction in a comprehensive manner. The research findings illuminate instruction methods that are culturally situated, robust and proven to impact student learning. It demonstrates how a unique data source can be analysed through multiple lenses and provides readers with a rich portrait of how the school mathematics instruction is enacted in Singapore secondary schools.

 

 

This book is part of a book series called Mathematics Education an Asian Perspective .

There are 345 pages in this book. This book was published in 2022 by Springer Verlag, Singapore .

Victor Chow is the author of the original Discovering Mathematics series in Singapore, where he is known as Chow Wai Keung. Singapore leads the world in secondary results in mathematics, and Discovering Mathematics has been its leading series for secondary 1 to 5 for over a decade. Victor Chow is a respected mathematics author, with over 16 years' experience of teaching in secondary schools and technical institutes. Passionate about writing textbooks, he is the author of a number of successful mathematics and statistics series for students in Years 7 to 12. Berinderjeet Kaur is a Professor of Mathematics Education at the National Institute of Education in Singapore; the first person to hold this position in Singapore. Professor Kaur is the founding chairperson of the Singaporean Mathematics Teachers' Conference series, and founding editor of the Association of Mathematics Educators Yearbook series. She was awarded the Public Administration Medal by the President of Singapore in 200