Syllabus

The Singapore Math syllabus reflects the recent developments and trends in mathematics education. The syllabus is being constantly revised every few years to ensure that it stays up to date and relevant. Continual emphasis is placed on conceptual understanding, skill proficiencies and thinking skills in the teaching and learning of mathematics. These components are integral to the development of mathematical problem solving ability.

Care has been taken to ensure that there is continuity from the primary to the secondary levels. Using a spiral design of the curriculum, each topic is revisited and introduced in increasing depth from one level to the next. This enables students to consolidate the concepts and skills learned and then further develop them. The concrete-pictorial-abstract development of concepts is advocated and this is evident in the teaching and learning approaches in the syllabus.

The Singapore Math Syllabus aims to enable students to acquire the necessary mathematical concepts and skills for everyday life, and for continuous learning in mathematics and related disciplines. It seeks to develop the necessary process skills for the acquisition and application of mathematical concepts and skills.

Pupils are taught to develop the mathematical thinking and problem solving skills and apply these skills to formulate and solve problems. The ability to recognise and use connections among mathematical ideas, and between mathematics and other disciplines make our pupils outshine most of their peers from all over the world.

The syllabus attempts to help pupils develop positive attitudes towards mathematics from a very young age. Pupils are encouraged to make effective use of a variety of mathematical tools (including information and communication technology tools) in the learning and application of mathematics. This, in turn, allows them to produce many imaginative and creative work arising from mathematical ideas. Last, but not least, the Singapore Math Syllabus strives to develop the pupils' abilities to reason logically, communicate mathematically, and learn cooperatively and independently.