Singapore Maths - quick help needed

[MissusBea]

Can anyone explain how to fill in this worksheet? I understand how to draw the 'real story / maths story' part of it but not how to fill in the circles to show the regrouping. Its homework from a Year 3 child I tutor privately and he needs help / reinforcement in the methods ..... but I am struggling myself to understand how to complete this sheet.

That's not true at all. It fits reasonably well.

Hundreds of schools are teaching the new curriculum using a Singapore style approach. The new curriculum dictates what to teach not how to teach it. If you want to assume Gove=grammar=rote learning, drill and nothing else that's one thing, but he's never said that when it comes to maths. In fact he's spoken positively about using the Singapore approach to teaching it.

The grammar part of the curriculum and assessment were a cock up, but the maths is fairly spot on IMO.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-36772954

Given the speed with which the White Rose resources and the NCTEM mastery documents seem to be being shared, it's an odd stance.

Last year's year 6 should never have been tested on that curriculum though. I can see how that would have caused issues.

The Singapore curriculum does require fluency of facts and procedures as well as problem solving. You need to be fairly fluent in multiplication and division to before you can partition the problems in the OP easily.

Does the Singapore Curriculum cover all aspects of the maths NC - shape and space, fractions, algebra etc?

Yes

Not necessarily in the same order though. Which is why i don't think the two textbooks will be interchangeable. Especially when it comes to fractions.

Having had a quick look through, I can't find that method of division in the books I have. It seems to go straight for the bus stop method. Might be in the one I'm missing. If you only have the Maths No Problem workbook. You may be better off getting the textbook that goes with it rather than the Inspire stuff.

Yes ordered the Year 3 text books as I think it's in there - the example above was from Maths No Problem 3A workbook.

Thanks Rafals, that's helpful. Hopefully if this method is being rolled out into as many schools as they say then there will slowly be more books introduced to the market with extra practice material along the same lines.

Hope so. A good textbook is worth its weight in gold IMO.

The series that became 'Inspire' did have additional workbooks with it, but I don't think you can get them in the UK anymore.