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When exam-smart students have near-zero choice but to regurgitate the model solutions promoted by their teachers or tutors, because there is hardly any time for them to think through most brain-unfriendly questions if they want to score a decent grade, much less question the questions.
With so many topics to cover and so little time to master the concepts, teachers and parents have come to terms that the only way for students to minimize failure and to maximize success is to reluctantly embrace made-in-Singapore math.
A nickname given to someone who wears a different mask every day to match the color of her dress or trousers.
To make mask-wearing a fashion statement during this pandemic, Melania wants others to see her as a mask queen, who doesn’t mask her taste for bright matching colors in the midst of pain and suffering.
When you need to simplistically explain an arguably simple math concept to a group of kindergarteners, most of whom probably have an IQ of a parrot or less, although their parents think that the intelligence of their little ones is closer to that of a dolphin.
Some big bird math topics kids at a premium enrichment math center were recently exposed to were: “as easy as ⍺, β, 𝛾” and “COVID-1–2–3.”
When citizens of the world remind themselves every January 6 to lend zero support to white racism and supremacism, and to have zero tolerance for bigotry and xenophobia—in reference to the date when Donald J. Trump incited his diehard supporters-turned-terrorists to storm the US Capitol as a desperate attempt to illegally prolong his stay at the White House.
Guesstimate how many people worldwide are expected to denounce white terrorism on Trumpism Prevention Day in 2022.
Someone who is more likely to apply Singapore’s bar model method rather than use algebra to solve a word problem—when a “look-see” proof to an elementary math nonroutine question is conceptually richer or more intuitive than mindlessly juggling some symbols and numbers to find the answer.
With Singapore math being the foreign math curriculum of choice among many homeschoolers, teachers, and tutors, guesstimate the number of bar modelists in the United States in the last two decades.
When you feel paranoiac of catching the coronavirus from someone who coughs, talks loudly on their smartphone, or walks around without a face mask in public squares.
Be it on a train, in a supermarket, or at a hawker center, it’d not be surprising that a large proportion of people suffer from a mild form of coronanoia.
When a brain-unfriendly, tricky, or ill-posed oft-elementary math question in a national exam is shared rapidly and widely on the internet, because an obscene number of unhappy students and their clueless parents could not solve it, who blamed the problem poser of the “unfair” question for causing them trauma, nightmare, pain, or suffering, with some even entertaining suicidal thoughts.
Singapore’s high-stakes Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE)—grade six—exam is notorious for setting viral math questions almost every other year—the PSLE math paper via its higher order thinking skills (HOTS) questions acts as a social filter to filter out the nerds from the herd.