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 Dr. Yeap Ban Har is presently a lecturer at the NIE. He was previously a head of department at a local secondary school. He has taught students in various streams, both in primary and secondary schools. Dr. Yeap holds a Master of Education and a Ph.D. in Mathematics Education. His current research interest focuses on problem solving, problem posing and thinking skills. He has been conducting workshops for teachers in Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand and the United States of America ("U.S.A."). He has authored many conference papers and written chapters for several books. He is also the author of several books for primary and pre-school children.
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| OBJECTIVES |
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Employ the “5 Dimensions of Learning” to aid students in learning Mathematics.
 thinking that influence pupils’ perceptions- thinking that help pupils acquire new knowledge
- thinking that help pupils extend and refine their existing knowledge
- thinking that help pupils apply their knowledge
- thinking which constitute good habits of mind
- Through fun and interesting activities with contents that are in line with school syllabus, our programme helps to improve students’ perceptions towards Mathematics and make learning enjoyable.
- Provides opportunities for them to use thinking skills to acquire, extend, refine and apply their knowledge to situations that they would encounter in life.
 Be guided on the path to explore creative ways in which they could employ to solve different types of Mathematics problems and they would also be taught various methods that they could use to critically evaluate their answers. This serves to help students improve their understanding of basic Mathematics concepts, which would help them to achieve better examination results.- To help students be aware of and develop a set of good habits of mind which is in line with Ministry of Education’s vision of Innovation and Enterprise.
- To help students acquire a set of thinking skills and problem-solving heuristics.
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| FEATURES |
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 Centre on a main problem, there may be follow-up related problems. Through the process of solving the main problems, students would be engaged in one or more of the five dimensions of learning.
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Involve the use of concrete materials to help students relate mathematics concepts to common things they would encounter in everyday life.
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Provides a variety of opportunities for students to engage in some kind of ‘looking back’ or re-capping of lessons learnt before to help them consolidate their knowledge.
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| TAILORING FOR SPECIFIC NEEDS |
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Although the topics included in the TTP follows those in the school’s scheme of work, we can tailor the topics according to the school’s specific needs. TTP can serve as:
 Revision Programme
choose topics that students have learnt the year before.- Preparatory Programme
choose topics to be done in the subsequent term.
- Remedial Programme
by selecting topics that students have difficulty in.
Thinking Skills and Thinking Habits are modeled in the activities. However, other tools can be incorporated into the activities:
- Innovation and Maths Investigations
- Examination Questions that require thinking ability can be included at the end of some lessons for students to practise.
- Learning Portfolio to document their best pieces of work throughout the programme.
- Maths Game – create game and to evaluate other groups’ work.
- Make A Product - such as a gift box or other geometrical objects.
- Journal - to document their learning journey.
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