Swee & Lee, (2009) citing a "dearth of research on the delivery of the model method
and on children's use of the model method" (Swee & Lee, 2009b, p. 294) conducted the only
other investigation of the Model Method in Singapore. Their exploration consisted of two
different studies. The first study, using qualitative methodology, asked teachers and school
administrators to answer questionnaires on student use of the Model Method while asking their
students to solve a set of increasingly difficult word problems. This section of the investigation
focused on perceptions of teachers around the Model Method. Unfortunately, the investigators
did not actually observe teachers working with the Model Method, nor were they able to