Why Singapore’s kids are so good at maths

Source: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2e4c61f2-4ec8-11e6-8172-e39ecd3b86fc.html

Sie Yu Chuah smiles when asked how his parents would react to a low test score. “My parents are not that strict but they have high expectations of me,” he says. “I have to do well. Excel at my studies. That’s what they expect from me.” The cheerful, slightly built 13-year-old is a pupil at Admiralty, a government secondary school in the northern suburbs of Singapore that opened in 2002.

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