Ordered the wrong Singapore by mistake!

[Mimm]

My kids are almost done with the math that we have on hand so I ordered the next ones from Rainbow. The box just arrived moments ago and I opened it up and as I was flipping through the textbook realized it was all printed in lots of colors. I bought the Standards edition rather than the US edition! Tell me this will be ok? I can help them get caught up on anything that wasn't introduced properly in the US edition (I read that the Standard has some extra emphasis). Part of what gives me pause is that my younger daughter will be finishing out a grade soon and starting the next, but my older daughter will be in the middle of grade 5 when it'll switch over from US to Standards. What kinds of issues will this cause for us?

[nmoira]

It's my understanding that you can move with little difficulty from a US "B" level to the next Standards "A" level.

 

Jenny on the Singaporemath.com boards should be able to tell you where there might be issues with Standards 5B.

[Crimson Wife]

Here is the TOC for 5B SE:

7 Decimals

1 Tenths, Hundredths and Thousandths

2 Approximation

3 Add and Subtract Decimals

4 Multiply and Divide Decimals by a 1-Digit Whole Number

Practice A

5 Multiplication by Tens, Hundreds or Thousands

6 Division by Tens, Hundreds or Thousands

7 Multiplication by a 2-Digit Whole Number

8 Division by a 2-Digit Whole Number

9 Multiplication by a Decimal

10 Division by a Decimal

Practice B

REVIEW 7

 

8 Measures and Volume

1 Conversion of Measures

Practice A

2 Volume of Rectangular Prisms

Practice B

REVIEW 8

 

9 Percentage

1 Percent

2 Writing Fractions as Percentages

Practice A

3 Percentage of a Quantity

Practice B

REVIEW 9

 

10 Angles

1 Measuring Angles

2 Finding Unknown Angles

3 Sum of Angles of a Triangle

4 Isosceles and Equilateral Triangles

5 Drawing Triangles

6 Sum of Angles of a Quadrilateral

7 Parallelograms, Rhombuses and Trapezoids

8 Drawing Parallelograms and Rhombuses

REVIEW 10

 

11 Average and Rate

1 Average

Practice A

2 Rate

Practice B

REVIEW 11

 

12 Data Analysis

1 Mean, Median and Mode

2 Histograms

3 Line Graphs

4 Pie Charts

REVIEW 12

 

13 Algebra

1 Algebraic Expressions

Practice A

2 Integers

Practice B

3 Coordinate Graphs

REVIEW 13

 

And here is the one for 5B US Ed.

 

1. Decimals

 

 

• Approximation and Estimation
  
• Multiplication by Tens, Hundreds or Thousands
  
• Division by Tens, Hundreds or Thousands
  
• Multiplying by a 2-digit Whole Number
  
• Conversion of Measurements
  

 

REVIEW A

 

2. Percentage

 

 

• Percent
  
• Writing Fractions as Percentage
  
• Percentage of a Quantity
  

 

3. Average

 

 

• Average
  

 

4. Rate

 

 

• Rate
  

 

5. Graphs

 

 

• Line Graphs
  

 

REVIEW B

 

6. Triangles

 

 

• Sum of Angles of a Triangle
  
• Isosceles and Equilateral Triangles
  
• Drawing Triangles
  

 

7. 4-sided Figures

 

 

• Parallelogram, Rhombuses and Trapezoids
  
• Drawing Parallelograms and Rhombuses
  

 

8. Tessellations

 

 

• Tiling Patterns
  

 

9. Volume

 

 

• Cubes and Cuboids
  
• Finding the Volume of a Solid
  

 

REVIEW C

REVIEW D

REVIEW E (extra review exercises on customary measurements)

 

 

Looking at the two, they seem fairly similar only the US Ed. has tessellations (minor topic) and the SE has the chapters on probability/statistics and algebra.

[Mimm]

Here is the TOC for 5B SE:

And here is the one for 5B US Ed.

 

 

 

Looking at the two, they seem fairly similar only the US Ed. has tessellations (minor topic) and the SE has the chapters on probability/statistics and algebra.

 

Thank you, this is helpful! I might just go ahead and use it and anything she comes across that hasn't been introduced (if something comes up) we'll just pause and cover it it more thoroughly.