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Why We Implemented Singapore Math in the Lower School

May 16, 2017

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Ranney School integrated Math in Focus, a Singapore-math based approach, in its Lower School in 2015-16. Just two years later, after nearly 500 years of teaching training, we are seeing amazing results.

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