Israeli Experience
Starting in 2002, the Singapore math textbooks have been translated into Hebrew and implemented in schools. The translations are now approved from grade 1 to grade 6. The books are used in about 150 schools (8% of the Hebrew speaking schools in Israel). National tests have shown success. Ten schools participated in the tests, and their average was about 8 points above the national average. There are complaints about the books as from 4th grade, concerning difficulty and "jumpiness", lacking in systematic structuring of the material. On the other hand, middle schools report that the students who studied with the books arrive better prepared.
Read more about this topic: Singapore Math Method
Famous quotes containing the words israeli and/or experience:
“Both gossip and joking are intrinsically valuable activities. Both are essentially social activities that strengthen interpersonal bonds—we do not tell jokes and gossip to ourselves. As popular activities that evade social restrictions, they often refer to topics that are inaccessible to serious public discussion. Gossip and joking often appear together: when we gossip we usually tell jokes and when we are joking we often gossip as well.”
—Aaron Ben-Ze’Ev, Israeli philosopher. “The Vindication of Gossip,” Good Gossip, University Press of Kansas (1994)
“It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.”
—Aneurin Bevan (1897–1960)