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Mathematics


What Our Subject is About



Mathematics contributes to the developments and understanding in many disciplines (e.g. science, engineering, computing, economics and finance, and social sciences). It provides the foundation for many of today’s innovations. It is used extensively to model the real world (e.g. weather, disease outbreak, and population growth), create lifestyle and engineering products (e.g. animated films, mobile games, and telecommunication tools), and make data-driven decision (e.g. business analytics, academic research and market survey). Such applications of mathematics require a good foundation in the discipline and a keen appreciation of its potential.

(extracted from MOE curriculum document)

 

RI Mathematics Department strives to  

  • Cultivate students’ discipline through learning Mathematics
  • Enhance students’ learning experience and provide them with opportunities to appreciate Mathematics

 

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Mr Thomas Teo (second from left) and Mr Lu Shang-Yi (second from right) attending prize presentation of their ex-students (centre)
who were awarded the Lee Kuan Yew Award for Mathematics and Science in 2017.

 

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This is Team Singapore for International Mathematical Olympiad 2020. All students were from the Raffles family. From left:
Tan Wee Kean (20S02A), Ma Zhao Yu (Senior who was in Team Singapore 2016 coming back to help coach juniors), Tan Xu Chen (20S06J),
David Toh Hui Kai (20S06J), Low Choo Ray (21S06C), Hu Xinghui (RGS), Aloysius Ng Yang Yi (20S06J)



What We Do To Develop Students' Interest/Abilities



For Mathematically inclined students:

  1. RA Mathematics programme: For students who do not want to be bounded by the limitation of university courses due to Further Mathematics subject combinations. (Interested students are required to clear a placement test)
  2. International Mathematical Olympiad: For selected students

     

    For General student population:

  3. Singapore Mathematical Olympiad: For interested students. Our own Mathematics Club members would conduct training sessions for their peers.
  4. Other Mathematics-related Competitions for the general student population, such as, Singapore Mathematical Society Essay Competition, Fastest Fingers Graphing Calculators competition, etc.

Periodic enrichment talks by our own teachers and university professors.