Primary Mathmatics 4B Textbook – Singapore Math – STD Ed.

This Primary Math Home Instructor’s Guide STD will help you to understand the important concepts of the Primary Mathematics (standards edition) curriculum and how these concepts fit in with the program.  The guide includes the following and more:

Scheme of Work: A table with a suggested weekly schedule, objectives for each lesson, and corresponding pages from the textbook, workbook, and guide.

Notes:  An explanation of what students learned in earlier levels, the concepts that will be covered in the chapter, and how these concepts fit in with the program.

Material:  A list of suggested manipulatives that can be used in presenting the concepts in each chapter.

Teaching Activity:  These include activities to introduce a concept concretely, the opening activities and tasks in the textbook that should be discussed with the student, and the tasks that students can do as guided practice or assessment to see if they understand the concepts.

Answers: Answers to both Textbook tasks and workbook problems, including many worked out solutions.

Reinforcement:  Additional activities that can be used if your student needs more practice or reinforcement of concepts.  These include activities, games, mental math pages.

Enrichment:  Optional activities that can be used to further explore the concepts or provide extra challenge.

Mental Math:  Problems for more practice with mental math strategies.

Appendix:  Pages containing drawings and charts that can copied and used in the lessons.

Primary Mathematics is the original Singapore math curriculum we introduced to the U.S. in 1998. Written by the Singapore Ministry of Education, it was the series in use when Singapore garnered attention for scoring at the top of international math tests.

Primary Mathematics epitomizes the Singapore Math Approach. The curriculum features the CPA (Concrete, Pictorial, Abstract) progression, number bonds, bar modeling, and a strong focus on fact fluency and mental math. The curriculum balances supervised learning and independent practice. This rigorous program encourages active thinking, communication of mathematical ideas, and problem solving. It lays the foundation students need for more advanced mathematics.