Singapore Math

Senior and managing editors in local publishing houses have always lamented how hard it is to recruit decent mathematics editors, because CV...

On 5 February 1999, Janey, an ex-colleague, forwarded me “Can U do a P4 maths question?”. A farmer has twice as many ducks as chickens. A...

Gary Rimmer defines “number freaking” as a way of looking at the world through the lens of numbers. Unlike guesstimation (a marriage of ...

LIFE and DEATH by Numbers One of Singapore’s founding fathers, Dr. Goh Keng Swee who was Mr. Lee Kuan Yew’s Economics tutor, and later his ...

The Sudoku fever has subsided significantly from the time one could witness dozens of teenagers and working adults (and even some seniors)...

Since it started participating in the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) in 1985, when it informally sent only two contestants, the...