How To Make Singapore Maths Work For Your Child (7th Grade / Secondary 1 To 10th Grade / Secondary 4)

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In Singapore, secondary schools are mostly using only one out of a few packages of Singapore Maths textbooks and workbooks to teach Elementary Maths. The choice of Singapore Maths packages for Elementary Maths depends on whether the students belong to a Express Course or a Normal Course.

Students in the Express Course are good in maths and they need only four years to complete their secondary education. The more able students even take an additional maths subject called Additional Maths in 9th Grade And 10th Grade / Secondary 3 And Secondary 4, so as to prepare them for college maths in 11th Grade And 12th Grade / GCE A Level. Additional Maths is also a requisite for students who study Biology, Chemistry and Physics. Students in the Normal Course are weaker in maths and they need five years to complete their secondary education.

For 7th Grade and 8th Grade / Secondary 1 and Secondary 2, it is mostly sufficient to use just one Singapore Maths package of textbooks and workbooks as these books provide lots of maths exercises. No other Singapore Maths workbook is necessary.

For 9th Grade And 10th Grade / Secondary 3 And Secondary 4, it is very common for students to supplement their Singapore Maths package of textbooks and workbooks with the respective GCE Ordinary Level maths past years' exam papers' questions and solutions manuals. These GCE Ordinary Level maths past years' exam papers' questions and solutions manuals provide the step-by-step worked solutions and answers to past years' exam papers' questions which had appeared in the national examinations, and they are used widely to teach Singapore students how to solve various types of maths question.

We therefore would like to recommend the following three steps to a good Singapore Maths diet for your child, which have worked for many Singapore students.

For 7th Grade / Secondary 1 to 10th Grade / Secondary 4, more than 80% of the Singapore secondary schools that offer the Express Course are using the following New Singapore Maths package to teach Elementary Maths, which are written based on the New Singapore Maths curriculum.

1. New Syllabus Mathematics

Note that all the above New Singapore Maths packages of textbooks and workbooks are based on the New Singapore Maths curriculum, which emphasizes new creative thinking skills and new heuristics in maths, as well as all the new maths skills that your child requires to survive and excel in the new world economy.

As mentioned above, the more able students also study Additional Maths in 9th Grade And 10th Grade / Secondary 3 And Secondary 4 on top of Elementary Maths. This is to prepare them for college maths in 11th Grade And 12th Grade / GCE A Level. Additional Maths is also a requisite for students who study Biology, Chemistry and Physics.

Many of the Singapore secondary schools are using the following New Singapore Maths textbook to teach Additional Maths, which is written based on the New Singapore Maths curriculum.

1. New Syllabus Additional Mathematics For 9th Grade And 10th Grade / Secondary 3 And Secondary 4 (This also complements the above mentioned New Syllabus Mathematics.)

If your child is in 9th Grade And 10th Grade / Secondary 3 And Secondary 4, we recommend that you get the following GCE Ordinary Level maths books for him. They will greatly help him to learn how to solve maths questions with ease.

Express Course Elementary Maths:

1. Challenging Mathematics For GCE O Level

Express Course Additional Maths:

1. GCE O Level Additional Mathematics Solution Manual
2. Challenging Additional Mathematics For GCE O Level
3. GCE O Level Additional Mathematics Key Points Study Guide

So these are the 3 steps that will help make Singapore Maths work for your child if he is in 7th Grade / Secondary 1 To 10th Grade / Secondary 4!

See also:

• The new and improved Singapore Math for the new generation
• Which Singapore Math textbooks are Singapore schools using?
• What is Singapore Maths?
• How to make Singapore Maths work for your child (1st Grade / Primary 1 to 6th Grade / Primary 6)