The results of this study also verified previous research on Singapore's Model Method.
In terms of Singapore’s pedagogy, the findings confirm the importance and utility of the
concrete-pictorial-abstract approach developed in Singapore through the model provided by
Jerome Bruner. As presented in Chapter 2, researchers have shown that model drawing helps
students depict the mathematical relationships within a given word problem. (Swee & Lee,
2009a; Swee & Lee, 2009b; Yeap, 2010). Researchers also have shown that models allow
students to identify known and unknown variables in word problems (Foong, 2009).