The Bastardization of Singapore Math

When foreign countries discreetly incorporate the best of the Singapore math curriculum, such as the bar or stack model method, learning experiences, and big ideas, into their own local curriculum, by adopting it as their stepchild, where cross-fertilization of local and foreign ideas occasionally results in an aha! by-product.

Thanks to the bastardization of Singapore math, the US Common Core Math had given birth to a few beautiful methodological and pedagogical offsprings in math education, much to the delight of local math educators who follow closely how their foreign counterparts are creatively adopting some of the problem-solving visualization strategies.

by Fasters July 19, 2022

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Bastarding

The act of searching out somebody who has just achieved something good and then instantly ruining it for them by doing something annoying to take the shine off of it. Usually a whole day activity as finding somebody who has just achieved success isn't easy.

If someone gets a good grade in an exam, throw a pint of milk in their face.

If a kid learns to ride a bike for the first time, run up and push it over.

You get the idea.

Hey John, fancy a spot of bastarding today?

by Frederik43 March 28, 2010

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