In the hidden crevices of our daily lives, where routine activities and decisions nestle, lies a subtle, often overlooked component: mathematics. From the groceries we buy to the routes we choose to commute, mathematics doesn’t merely exist; it permeates, influencing our choices, actions, and the outcomes of our day-to-day interactions. At Seriously Addictive Mathematics (S.A.M.), with our strong foundation in Singapore Maths style teaching, we believe in unfolding the ubiquity of mathematics, ensuring our learners appreciate and utilise it, even beyond the classroom walls.

Breakfast and Fractions: Slicing, Sharing, and Proportioning

Imagine a typical morning scene: you’re slicing a loaf of bread or dividing an apple amongst family members. These seemingly mundane activities intrinsically involve fractions and proportional reasoning. Determining how to evenly divide food items, ensuring each individual receives a fair share, is an application of understanding fractions, division, and proportionality.

At S.A.M., our curriculum equips students with a firm grasp on understanding, ensuring they comprehend not only the ‘how’ but also the ‘why’ behind division and proportion, paving the way for logical reasoning and equitable sharing in their daily activities.

Budgeting: A Realm of Addition, Subtraction, and Financial Literacy

When managing finances, be it pocket money, allowances, or household budgets, arithmetic and financial literacy become pivotal. Deciding how much to spend, save, or allocate towards different needs and wants involves addition, subtraction, and planning – ensuring solvency and sustainability.

Our learners at S.A.M. delve into arithmetic operations and their practical applications, ensuring they cultivate a sense of future financial management, which will become increasingly significant as they navigate through varied life stages.

Time Management: Calculating, Estimating, and Allocating Minutes and Hours

Managing time efficiently, whether deciding how long to spend on homework or determining the departure time to reach a destination punctually, involves calculations, estimations, and allocations of time segments. Mathematics enables us to gauge durations, predict endings, and manage our activities within the confines of ticking minutes and hours.

Through problem-solving and logical reasoning emphasised in the Singapore Maths methodology, we aid students in developing a knack for estimating durations and effectively managing their time.

Gardening: Geometry in Planting and Growth Predictions

Geometry doesn’t merely exist in textbooks; it blossoms in gardens, where space allocation, distance between seeds, and predicting growth patterns require geometrical and algebraic thinking. Ensuring that plants have adequate space, sunlight, and optimising layouts for growth are tasks rooted in mathematical reasoning.

S.A.M. imbues students with the skills that find utility in activities like gardening, where precision and foresight ensure flourishing yields.

Cooking: Measurements, Conversions, and Proportional Scaling

Navigating through culinary adventures involves a dash of measurements, a sprinkle of conversions, and occasionally, a need to scale recipes proportionally. Converting units, adapting recipes, and ensuring ingredients harmonise in perfect symphony involve mathematical thinking and numeracy skills.

Sports: Analysing Angles and Predicting Trajectories

Whether it’s hitting a baseball, scoring a goal, or executing a perfect dive, sports are inundated with angles, trajectories, and predictive analysis. Deciding the angle to throw, predicting where a ball will land, and analysing movements to enhance performance are intricately connected with physics and mathematics.

At S.A.M., the analytical and predictive skills developed through our curriculum equip students to apply mathematical reasoning in their future sports, optimising their play and enhancing their understanding of physical movements and outcomes.

Sewing and Crafting: Estimations, Measurements, and Symmetry

The realm of crafting and sewing is a tapestry woven with estimations, measurements, and symmetry. Determining how much material is needed, ensuring patterns are symmetrical, and planning layouts involve practical applications of mathematical concepts.

Mathematics, the Unsung Hero of Daily Decisions and Activities

Here, we believe that mathematics is not merely a subject to be mastered but a language to be spoken, a tool to navigate through the complexities and decisions embedded in daily life. Our adoption of the Singapore Maths style not merely aims to create proficient mathematicians but also enlightened individuals who see, appreciate, and utilise the hidden mathematics sprinkled throughout their lives.

In nurturing our students, we aspire to unveil the hidden mathematics, ensuring that it is recognized, appreciated, and applied, transforming ordinary activities into extraordinary adventures of numeracy and logical reasoning. We are not merely educators; we are the revealers of hidden worlds, where mathematics ceaselessly influences, governs, and enhances our daily choices, actions, and experiences.

To discover more about how we at Seriously Addictive Mathematics integrate real-world applications into our curriculum, or if you’d like to become a part of our community where mathematics is lived, loved, and utilised, you can connect with us here.