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Concrete → pictorial → abstract, taught mastery-style.
Updated September 2026 · 7 sources
| Grades | PreK–8 |
|---|---|
| Approach | Mastery, conceptual |
| Who teaches | The parent teaches |
| Parent prep | Moderate–high |
| Screen time | Mostly offline (books and paper) |
| Video lessons | Available: lesson videos available |
| Faith | No religious content |
| Cost | About $103 per grade for textbooks, workbooks and home guides (A and B) (source) |
| Placement | Free placement tests A printable test for each half-level (A and B). |
| ESA vendor | Publisher is on the approved vendor list in Arkansas (marketplace), Wyoming, New Hampshire. Checked September 2026; each state's list can change and applies to the publisher, not every product. |
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See my matchParents consistently credit Singapore with building real number sense: kids learn why a method works, not only how. The newer Dimensions edition adds videos and activities, which helps, but many say the lessons got longer and need more parent prep than the older Primary Mathematics books.
These come straight from the scoring rules the quiz uses.
Singapore Math is described as mastery, conceptual. It's mastery-based: each topic is taught in depth before moving on.
Singapore Math covers grades PreK–8.
About $103 per grade for textbooks, workbooks and home guides (A and B). Prices were checked on publisher or retailer pages in September 2026; check current prices before buying.
Singapore Math is secular: it has no religious content.
Mostly offline (books and paper). The parent teaches.
Yes. Free placement tests. A printable test for each half-level (A and B).
Summaries are in our own words.