Shaping Maths is another good option that employs the Singapore approach, aligned to the 2013 Singapore Ministry of Education (this is the most current syllabus). Published by Marshall Cavendish, the publisher of Singapore programs in Europe, this curriculum provides plenty of practice and uses a mastery approach to learning. You’ll find the same vocabulary you’ve come to expect in other Singapore-approach math curriculum and the familiar methods of problem-solving, such as bar modeling, bonding, etc. There are 3 books at each level of this curriculum – Activity Book, Coursebook, and Teacher’s Planning Guide; the three together provide complete instruction at grade level for grades 1-6.

The Activity Books in this series are consumable and are formatted for practice of the concepts that are presented in the corresponding coursebook. Referenced at the bottom of the appropriate coursebook pages, you will know when to complete the pages in the activity book. Activity books are black and white and provide ample practice for each concept. Activity books 1A, 1B, and 2B have cardstock manipulatives in the back of the book that will be referenced in some of the lessons of that book. There is one activity book per semester, and the number of pages varies from about 150 to over 200 pages. Activity books have minimal instruction, because it is assumed that you are using the coursebook for the explanation of concepts.