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With only half of the teachers in primary schools having undergraduate degrees and a negligible number with a mathematics degree, bold actions are necessary to ensure tha a high-quality instruction is available to the majority of the students. This session shows how a coherent, dynamic framework is essential to achieve the desired educational goals.

epiSTEME - 4: Fourth international conference to review research on Science, TEchnology and Mathematics Education Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (TIFR), Mumbai, India, January 5-9, 2011 http://www.hbcse.tifr.res.in/episteme4 CERME 2011 - Conference of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Rzeszow, Poland, February 9-13, 2011 XIII CIAEM — Inter-American Conference on Mathematics Education Recife, Brasil, June 26-30, 2011. http://www.ciaem-iacme.org/ ICTMT10 - 10th International Conference on Technology in Mathematics Teaching University of Portsmouth, July 5-8, 2011 http://www.ictmt10.org/ PME 35 - CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL GROUP FOR THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MATHEMATICS EDUCATION Ankara, Turkey, July 10-15, 2011 SEMT 11 - SYMPOSIUM ON ELEMENTARY MATHS TEACHING Prague, Czech Republic, August 21-26, 2011 http://kmdm.pedf.cuni.cz/Default.aspx?PorZobr=7&PolozkaID=-1&ClanekID=267 ICMI Study 21 Conference São Paulo, Brazil, September 16-20, 2011 http://www.icmi-21...

NCTM Annual Meeting and Exposition Mathematics Problems from Primary Schools in Singapore (by SingaporeMath.com) I used problems from the Primary Mathematics (Standards Edition) in this sessions to discuss the different roles of problems. Making Connections: Problems from Singapore Classrooms I used problems from textbooks, national examination (PSLE) and teacher-created problems as well as problems from lesson study to show the kind of problems typical in the Singapore classrooms. Panel Does Singapore Mathematics Enhance Student Learning in the United States? I did the introduction to this panel presentation by describing selected aspects of mathematics teaching and learning in Singapore. Special Event What's The Theory Behind Singapore Math? This session for teachers in California helped teachers understand the theoretical undepinning of Singapore Math - plus they get to see a video of problem solving in a Grade 1 class and solve some PSLE problems themselves. The presentations a...