A kind of alien math from a rebel island that was once part of Malaysia, where they learn and teach math word problems in a local dialect called Singlish, using rectangles, lines, and dotted lines, which the people there call “bar models,” with most of them looking arguably ugly.
Local teachers told an Englishman that Singapori Math is a rojak or mélange of methodologies and pedagogies, with ingredients from both the East and the West—when the island was trying to solve its population’s high innumeracy rate in the seventies.
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Ramsey: The factual statistic is that 52% of marriages end in divorce. But, if you take out single mothers, people over 22, high school marriages, people with degrees, people earning less than $50,000, people who attend a house of worship, people who aren't from a divorced background; about 90% of marriages DO WORK.
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A description of the type of incorrect math or reasoning that a retard tries to make up on the spot to sound legit, even though it's just simple math. Give them long enough and you might even start believing his nonsense.
Why did the house collapse? The architecture got drunk and designed it with some bunk ass storm math.
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Singapore Math has sprung up a cottage industry in math education, as millions of homeschoolers worldwide realized that wallet-friendly, brain-unfriendly math titles have helped their children hone their problem-solving skills.
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“Singapore Math” is a cousin of “Girl Math.” It’s like freely or unashamedly taking home a dozen-plus sachets of sugar, salt, ketchup, and chili sauce from McDonald’s, when you’ve only ordered the cheapest set meal on offer.
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