The Singapore Method

Name one Singaporean mathematician without looking up. Case closed.

>>8927824
I guess I didn't state what I mean, but almost every single Singaporean and Chinese is fluent in basic mathematics, and they can do it effortlessly, without a calculator. They all make A's in college math courses because they've either already learned it, or their basics are so strong they can proceed right into it without any review or hesitation.

>>8927837

cool story bro

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>>8927814
>and the proposed Common Core State Standards

>>8927837
>almost every single Singaporean and Chinese is fluent in basic mathematics
So are most people in the developed world.
>They all make A's in college math courses because they've either already learned it, or their basics are so strong
That's your baseless assumption. They make As because they come from cultures with extremely strict work ethics.

>>8927848
then how can i become less lazy?

>>8927850
Through the force of will.

>>8927824
my professor is working on a way to prove something about the derivative at [0,0], she's pretty good

Finally something that will make Asians not be like robots and improve emotional intelligence.

>>8927844
>le common core bogeyman
just because you rote memorized how to do stuff step by step does not mean that was a good way to learn

>>8927844
>Teacher is trying to teach a technique using a contrived but simple example.
>Student either misses the point that this is a contrived and simple example or fails to learn the basic technique.
>Teacher marks student wrong.

There is literally nothing wrong with this.

>>8927824
Singapore is a very small very young nation

>>8927814
So are you saying the system is solely to blame for your shit skills? You can't compare the US education system to others because our European counterparts have a fraction of our population, and the Chinese have a single centralized system. It would be more accurate to compare invididual US states, but that doesn't get headlines, and interest groups aren't -interested- in presenting accurate pictures or listing 50 states in their rankings (even though some US states are larger than a lot of the countries that get listed in the top 20)

>>8928278
What is wrong is that the more correct method would be to subtract 3 from both 103 and 28, making the answer of 75 obviously correct

>trying to use science where the market would function properly except that all the lefty retards insist education has to be run by the government

>now we not only have to overpay for shitty teachers, we have to overpay for shitty "scientists" to come up with methods that even shitty teachers could manage to not fuck up

I'd rather McDonalds run our schools.

>>8927814
Mastery education is a concept that's been around a while, and discussed a lot outside of asia. You can't point to asia either because taking Japan as an example, its normal to go to 'cram school' a few nights a week.

To be honest the major issue with western systems is that progress is tied so intrinsically with age and the cohort progressing uniformly together.

If they personalized things a bit more, they'd be 'allowed' to fail students without fucking up their (social) life in the process.

>>8927959
>derivative at [0,0]
Explain importance or you are wasting our time, bud

>>8927844
Poor kid was probably a sleep in class and doesn't know what all this 'reasonable answer' shit is about.

Clearly this where you introduce the approximately equals and everything is so easy.


28≈25
103≈100
∴
103-28≈100-25=75

>>8930537
Rounding to the nearest 5.

Spotted the freshman biology major

>>8930537
>28 is closer to 25 than 30
>103 is closer to 100 than 105

>>8930862

This gets the same result dope.

>>8928196
its the best way to learn

>>8930537
wat

Do you know how to round?

>>8927959
is she gonna find a new way to approximate the area under a graph using quadrilaterals too?

>>8930537
This is what I would have done in elementary school. I knew how to round. It was easy. But why would I round that when I could just subtract 3 from both and have an exact answer as quickly as I could have rounded? It's the same number of mental steps either way so it seems most reasonable to get the right answer. I probably lost a lot of points in elementary school for being stubborn about these sorts of things.

I had a hard time getting along with some teachers through all my schooling because of stuff like this.

>>8927824
theyre all making too much bank to become an academic

>>8928329

>our european counterparts have a fraction of our population

And what does it have to do with anything? If you split the US into fully independent states, would the schooling improve?

Maybe to achieve max competence and education we should all split into Luxembourgs?

>>8930889
Maybe for law and anatomy. Mathematics is not about memorizing formulae. Though it certainly can help. Prime example is combinatorics where many high-schoolers fail because they can't figure out which formula applies to given problem. I bet my asshole that if you presented 10 people a trivial problem like "probability of your pin having all numbers even", most of them would fail to answer correctly the first time.

>>8932567
I want to say 50% but something inside me is screaming no

>>8932652
Don't try unless you want to get depressed how utterly stupid we are

>>8933039
thanks for interpreting it that way
though I meant having as my first thought 50% for the pin

>>8932567
>"probability of your pin having all numbers even"
The either do or they don't, so 50%.

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>>8932567
(1/2)^4 ?

>>8934120
I agree.

>>8927844
Well without seeing the whole paper we don't know if it was asking for it to be estimates or not which it looks like it was.

Seriously you must be the kind of customer who bitches at a cashier because they won't take your expired coupon.

>>8928333
If the lesson is about estimation and estimates the kid is not going to learn how to do them by not doing them. Sure the exact answer is always best but that is not what the teacher was trying to teach.

>>8934769
Then he should come up with excercises where the only viable answer is estimate. This is a prime example of shitty teacher

>>8928196
t. nigger