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Mission
We are a company dedicated to high standards of excellence in service and quality in products. It is our mission to bring quality educational books to schools and homeschoolers in the U.S.A. and Canada.
Singaporemath.com (formerly known as Family Things) was started in 1998 by Jeff and Dawn with a mission to bring quality educational books to the U.S.A. We lived for five years in Singapore (Dawn is a Singaporean), where our daughter attended kindergarten and the first half of first grade, before moving back to the U.S. in 1997. We were disappointed with the quality of mathematics materials used at schools here and decided to continue using the Singapore Math books with our daughter, as a supplement to her school work. It then dawned on us that it would be a good idea to make these books available to the schools and homeschoolers in this country.
At that time, the Singapore Math books were virtually unknown here (except for some top mathematics academics and a prominent math foundation - Gabriella and Paul Rosenbaum Foundation, who were already researching the program and promoting it in public schools).
This is our tenth year in the business and we are proud that quite a few schools and homeschoolers are now using the Singapore Math program. We have also been interviewed by NPR and a few major newspapers in the past few years. Please visit our media coverage page for more information.
To those of you who have sent us acknowledgement and appreciation notes for bringing the Math program to this country, our heartfelt thanks go out to you. You have made our initial sacrifice and the continuing hard work worthwhile.
We know you have choices of what math curricula to adopt and where to buy your books. Our Family thanks you for your continual support. We hope to fulfill our mission of bringing you the best K-12 Mathematics, Science and English books available for years to come.
Thanks
Jeff and Dawn
History in the making.......
1998: Brought in the first batch of Singapore Primary Mathematics (3rd Edition) to the U.S.A. and Canada. Operated under the name Family Things.
2001: Incorporated our company under the name SingaporeMath.com Inc
2002: Obtained permission from Ministry of Education, Singapore to adapt Primary Mathematics (3rd Edition) into Primary Mathematics (U.S. Edition).
2003: All six levels of Primary Mathematics (U.S. Edition) were rolled out in the spring of 2003.
2004: SingaporeMath.com Inc published our first teacher's guide. In the same year, we bought the rights to Intensive Practice (an excellent supplementary series initially published by Postkids in Singapore). We published a U.S. edition of the series. Also adapted Earlybird Kindergarten Preschool series into Earlybird Kindergarten U.S. Edition.
2005: SingaporeMath.com Inc published Teacher's Guides 4A, 4B, 5A and 5B. Added about twenty new distributors in the U.S. and Canada. Bought the rights to Essential Skills Nursery and Kindergarten Mathematics series.
2006: SingaporeMath.com Inc published Teacher's Guides 6A and 6B. New web site was launched in June 2006.
2007: SingaporeMath.com Inc published Primary Math Home Instructor's Guides for 1A and 1B. Published Essential Mathematics A and B for kindergarten level (adapted from the popular Essential Skills Nursery and Kindergarten Mathematics series). Co-published Primary Mathematics Standards Edition with Marshall Cavendish (to align with California Standards. Primary Mathematics Standards Edition has been approved by the Califoria State Board of Education for adoption in California schools in 2008.
2008: Our plans -
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Publish Home Instructor's Guides for Standards Edition.
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Publish Intensive Practice Standards Edition.
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Continue to strive to bring you the best.
Our own publications:
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Primary Mathematics Teacher's Guide 2A - 6B
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Primary Mathematics Intensive Practice 1A - 6B.
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Primary Mathematics Answer Keys Booklets 1A-3B and 4A-6B.
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Primary Mathematics Home Instructor's Guide 1A and 1B.
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Essential Mathematics Kindergarten A and B.
SingaporeMath.com Inc, 404 Beavercreek Road #225, Oregon City, OR 97045
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