Singapore math question

[MaryCatherine]

Do you think you can work your way through the CWP series without doing the entire Singapore program? I understand that SM uses rod diagrams for their word programs and I plan on working on that this summer myself so that I can teach it to the boys. I'd like for us to spend the next couple of years working through a couple of CWP books, but we haven't used the program.

 

So basically, if I can get the bars down pat, well enough to teach, will that be enough?

 

Thanks.

[nmoira]

Yes :001_smile:

[Shelly in the Country]

Yes. The old CWP books had example problems using the bar diagram method for each set of problems before each section. I haven't seen the new ones so I don't know if they do or not.

[nansk]

I found the book "The Singapore Model Method for Learning Mathematics" (link) very helpful. It has lots of sample problems and it shows the progression from the 4 operations, through ratio and percentages, up to the algebraic method.

 

If you can read through this book once, you can then teach your dc to apply it to the word problems in the CWP book.

[Jolana]

I agreed with other posters; you don't need to do the whole program in order to do CWP. If you learn the bar diagram technique, then you are set to go.