1. Slides are available at www.banhar.blogspot.com
St Edwards School, Florida CHIJ Our Lady of Good Counsel, Singapore
Coaching Children in Primary 1 Mathematics
Seminar for Parents
Yeap Ban Har
Marshall Cavendish Institute, Singapore

2. Slides are available at www.banhar.blogspot.com
St Edwards School, Florida CHIJ Our Lady of Good Counsel, Singapore
Coaching Children in Primary 1-2 Mathematics (12-hour course)
28 January, 18 February, 10 March & 14 April 2012 (Saturdays)
Please go to Marshall Cavendish Institute Facebook or contact
ruthyaap@sg.marshallcavendish.com for details.

3. Professional Development of primary school teachers by Marshall Cavendish Institute.

4. MATHEMATICAL PROBLEM SOLVING

6. The rationale of teaching mathematics is that it is “an
excellent vehicle for the development and
improvement of a person’s intellectual
competence”.

7. Changing Education Landscape

8. 2011
Values Driven
Student Centric
Education System
1999
Thinking Schools
Learning Nation
Ministry of Education’s Vision

9. Photo: Catholic High School (Primary)
Photo: St Anthony’s Canossian Primary School

10. Photo: Princess Elizabeth Primary School

11. Princess Elizabeth Primary School

12. Key ideas in Primary 1

14. Number Bonds

15. Number Bonds
Number Bonds is
emphasized prior to the learning of
addition.
Children are given, say, 5 unifix
cubes and guided to see that 1 and
4 make 5, for example. Others may
say that 3 and 2 make 5 or 4 and 1
make 5. Yet others may say that 5
and 0 make 5.
Earlybird Kindergarten Mathematics

16. Photo: PCF Telok Blangah Kindergarten

17. One duck is big.
Six ducklings are small.
Photo: PCF Telok Blangah Kindergarten

18. Photo: PCF Telok Blangah Kindergarten

19. Photo: PCF Telok Blangah Kindergarten

20. Photo: PCF Telok Blangah Kindergarten

21. Photo: PCF Telok Blangah Kindergarten

22. My Pals Are Here! Mathematics 1
Number Bonds continues
to receive attention in Primary 1.

24. Addition Facts

25. Addition
Facts Facts
Addition are given
emphasis in the first six months of
grade one.
The children learn it in stages as the
textbooks distinguished between
Numbers to 10 and Numbers to 20.
Count On and Count All are used in
Numbers to 10.
Kindergarten Textbook

26. Addition Facts & Number Sense
While Count On and Count
All are used in Numbers to
10, Make Ten is given
emphasis in Numbers to
20.
Princess Elizabeth Primary School

27. Problem Solving

29. Khon Kaen, Thailand

30. 4
3 1 2
5

31. Princess Elizabeth Primary School

32. Connections
Looking for Patterns is
Princess Elizabeth Primary School
introduced through exploration with
Shapes. Subsequently, this is done
using numbers – in a more abstract
context.
Make Connections to Generalize

33. Princess Elizabeth Primary School
Connections

34. Communication
Articulating one’s thoughts orally, at
first, and in written forms using
words, pictures, diagrams and symbols is important.
Maris Stella High (Primary) School

35. Visualization
Visualization is, among other
things, the ability to manipulate
visual images without the benefit of
concrete objects.
Children in Japanese classrooms
engaged in visualization using
pattern blocks.

36. Visualization
In the learning of Numbers to
10, children use square tiles to form
patterns of 3 and patterns of 4, for
instance.
Illustrations in textbooks were also
carefully varied to develop this
competency.
Earlybird Kindergarten Mathematics

37. CPA Approach

38. National Institute of Education

39. Photo: St Anthony’s Canossian Primary School

40. Photo:: Wellington Primary School

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 5 x 9 = 45
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42. 199 – 39 = 160
200 – 39 = ?

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45. My Pals Are Here Mathematics 1
CPA
Approach
Photo: Princess Elizabeth Primary School

46. Photo: Princess Elizabeth Primary School

47. Photo: Princess Elizabeth Primary School

48. Photo: Princess Elizabeth Primary School

49. Photo: National Institute of Education

50. Photo: National Institute of Education