Love for math is learned; and fear of Math may be un-learned.  Like our science, social studies, literacy, and other curricular programs, our math curriculum considers mathematical concepts and teaching strategies that are age-appropriate across all grade levels.

 

In Primary, children work (and play) with a variety of math manipulatives that will help them cross the big divide of concrete thinking to symbolic thinking to abstract thinking.  Whew!

 

The adoption of Singapore Math using its Concrete-Pictorial-Abstract (CPA) approach further advances logical reasoning.  Anchor tasks help students visualize and communicate thinking in different ways.  And they discover that math is strategy and problem-solving moment that happens everyday

 

At the Lower primary, students learn number sense by making inventory lists, percentages thru sports-stat analysis, and operations using receipts from groceries, travel, bookstores, restos, etc.  Measurement is practiced when students cook for the Hele Fair, bake sale, family dinner, etc.

 

At the Upper primary, geometry is reinforced by map reading, and project designs of indoor and outdoor spaces.  Board games teach children winning strategies.

 

Lessons in whole numbers, measurements, graphs, fractions, decimals, geometry are always taught in the context of applications to real life situations. Teaching for and learning with RELEVANCE is always a good teaching recipe.