The EU debate - Part III

Singapore teaching of maths IS better: Pupils taught using the technique shot ahead of their peers
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-taught-using-technique-shot-ahead-peers.html

"Children make more progress in maths with Singapore-style methods
Traditional Asian way focuses on mastering principles as 'building blocks'
It is a change from 'child-centred' methods which favour games

Children make more progress in maths when teachers use Singapore-style methods, according to an Oxford study.
Researchers found pupils shot ahead of their peers when taught the traditional Asian way, which focuses on mastering core principles as 'building blocks'.
The 'mastery' method introduces core concepts, such as times tables, addition and subtraction, gradually until learners are confident.
Ideas are broken down into small steps, which means using real life objects to illustrate a point, before moving on to drawings and then concepts.
It is a departure from trendy, 'child-centred' methods which favour games and memorising facts. Experts have long warned such lessons foster only a shallow understanding of maths.
The Oxford University study comes amid a drive to bring Singapore-style teaching to Britain's schools to boost numeracy.
Britain came 26th in the latest international rankings for teenage numeracy by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, while Singapore came second.

Researchers monitored pupils learning with Inspire Maths, a Singapore-style textbook being trialled in schools by the Department for Education.

Lead author James Hall said: 'We found positive evidence that Inspire Maths benefited children's maths achievement.
'This boost to progress was surprising because pupils had only been in a classroom setting for a short period'.
The study involved two groups of children aged five to six – a total of 550 – learning maths in 12 English schools in 2015 to 2016.
The first group learned maths as normal for the first term, and then in the second term switched to using the Inspire Maths textbook.
The second group used the textbook for both terms, and made better overall progress than the first group.
Inspire Maths is published by Oxford University Press and is based on My Pals are Here, which is used in most Singaporean primary schools.
In July, schools minister Nick Gibb announced £41million over four years to fund a network of 'mastery specialist teachers'.

Jill Cornish, maths director at OUP, said: 'We now have clear evidence that a mastery approach can make a real difference to maths classrooms, and we support the Government's moves to support it'.
It comes six years after Michael Gove claimed schools in the Far East were putting Britain's to shame.
In 2010 the then education secretary said improvements must be made if our schools were to compete with nations such as China and Singapore."

 

We need to get rid of the incompetent teachers we have now who can't even comprehend simple English.

 

Bizarre meltdown even by his standards. Ula must have slipped something in his morning mug of gravy.

 

He's completely batshit mental. His hobby is shouting at checkout girls in Tesco.

 

Anyone who does even a reasonable amount of driving knows this isn't a Polish problem.

 

Perhaps I'll post my thick as pigshit list?...

 

You can imagine them all shopping together. Zlatan hurling abuse at anyone in the frozen curry section, Kustard outside unable to get his £1 coin into the trolley and Hull remonstrating with the security for throwing them out.

 

Pete has been unable to operate a car for years.

 

Are you carrying long held prejudices about this?

I ask as it appears that one of these incompetent teachers taught you English!

 

It's interesting to look at some recent posts to see how broad ranging some fascist sjw's see brexit is as a topic...at times.

Should we have a safe space on here?

 

So far on the easy to bite table

NSIS and Teaboy are neck and neck, who will be the winner...

I can see safespace Watford making a late surge up the table

 

Indeed, teaching in Singapore seems to have been brought into the discussion by one particularly loopy poster

 

I'm having a hard time trying to keep up with him tbh

 

The loony left on here have given up all pretence of logical thought. They are only capable of insults and talking rubbish.

 

If you had a better grasp of the English language you'd realise how funny that is. Poor Kustard

 

I guess coping is a kind of flattery.

 

You can only see the far right

 

FFS.

You **** it up every time!

 

Did you give your Mrs the pet name Fido after your favourite Cuban, or.....?

Woof!