Singapore Math: Using the Model-Drawing Approach in Your Classroom

A concrete pictorial to abstract instructional sequence that will make difficulties with sovling word problems a thing of the past!

• Incorporate Singapore's powerful model drawing approach into your existing math curriculum.
• Introduce and emphasize problem-solving skills and strategies—the essential components to math success, in the concrete-pictoral-abstract sequence.
• Utilize model drawing as a bridge that connects concrete thinking to abstract solutions.
• Improve your students' understanding of math language and problem solving with powerful math interventions.
• Equip your learners with the skills to confidently solve multi-step word problems.
• Strengthen the mental math abilities of your learners with easy-to-teach and easy-to-learn techniques.
• Introduce algebraic concepts sooner.
• Use a rubric to determine the instructional needs of students when solving word problems.
• Develop students' skills to read, analyze, and use manipulatives to solve multi-step word problems.
• Accelerate math achievement for your gifted, on-grade-level, and struggling learners.
• Make math meaningful, engaging, and fun for all your learners—and yourself, too!

Presenter: Char Forsten
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