Even if you’re not a tiger mum or dad, there is no better way to usher in the New Year, by blessing your child or a loved one with the quirky and colorful Singapore’s Maths Calendar 2025.
Literacy & Numeracy
Singapore’s locally published and printed “first of its kind” math calendar aims to kill two birds with a mathematical stone, by helping your little one become both literate and numerate in the shortest time.
With a new math question every day—the answer is the date on which the question is posed—offers a creative way for grades 1–2 (or primary 1–2) children to learn math, while having fun along the way.
Plus, the questions have been painstakingly set in such a way that they follow closely and timely the topics or concepts that are presented in the students’ MOE-approved textbooks and workbooks. Yes, even during the school holidays, calendar users’ daily mathematical diet is being taken care of.
Enrichment Math via Comics
With a monthly comic story that promotes biodiversity so that the younger generation would still have a planet to inhabit when they’ve their own children and grandchildren, Singapore Maths Calendar 2025 also aims to educate young readers about Singapore’s wildlife, while learning some fun facts about birds, mammals, reptiles, and sea creatures native to the island state.
Publishing a Math Calendar
For aspiring mathepreneurs or seasoned math writers, who desire to produce a similar calendar for other grades or editions in 2026 and beyond, you might think twice or thrice before embarking on such a “deceptively easy” math project.
As I hinted earlier, as a writer, if you want to write a salable math title that would pay the bills (or one that might even help you retire prematurely), writing an assessment or supplementary math title has a higher chance of fulfilling your short- or medium-term goals than working on a [Singapore/Singaporean] math calendar.
At best, writing and publishing a math calendar might temporarily boost your ego, but based on my experience working on these tricky pet math projects, I’d recommend that you spend the man- or woman-hours producing a few no-frills assessment or problem-solving or recreational math titles instead—if you long for some decent royalty or pie-in-the-sky lump sum payment.
For the publisher, producing a math calendar, especially in ever-dwindling birth rate Singapore, the risks (and costs) are pretty high. For the writer, the much-longer time and oft-unappreciated effort needed to write a math calendar could be better spent teaching, tutoring, editing, or writing more salable or profitable assessment titles.
From a business standpoint, 98% of publishers would rather focus their energy and deploy their manpower on producing profitable titles than meeting the mathematical needs and wants (or satisfying the ego) of their calendar math writer. Moreover, from the editorial and production angles, churning out a math calendar could be frustratingly painful and technically challenging, compared to producing a typical assessment or supplementary title (or even an oft-ill-edited primary school textbook).
Count on Singapore!
The Singapore Maths Calendar 2025 is not only a Christmaths gift for 6–8 year olds, especially those who’ve an ambivalent attitude towards the subject, but also an aha! souvenir for any traveler to the “fine” city of Singapore. An apt [nonboring] Singapore math gift to bless a loved one at home!
Be a part of the Singapore math diaspora, while having a good idea of the mathematical standard expected of most local students. The calendar’s must-do or must-practice math questions allows you to gauge your child’s level of mathematical proficiency vis-à-vis their counterparts in Singapore, where even their weaker students have so far fared better than the global average.
For the price of two McDonald’s meals or less, with a yearlong supply of 365 routine and nonroutine math questions, plus 12 months of comics stories, there is probably no present Singapore math assessment title, enrichment or not, that offers the average or above-average student a wallet-friendly rich mathematical experience quite like the Singapore Maths Calendar 2025.
Trust not my words! See for yourself whether or not this math calendar-cum-assessment-book is worth a good educational investment for your child or homeschooler in 2025.
Bonus: A math problem a day could keep the tutor away!
© Yan Kow Cheong, January 6, 2025.
