Yeap Ban Har

Name	Asst. Prof. Yeap Ban Har PhD Nanyang, MEd Nanyang, MA Singapore, PGDE Nanyang, BSc Singapore
Location	Room 7-03-29
Contact	(65) 6790 3918
Email	banhar.yeap@nie.edu.sg

Teaching Areas

	Curriculum Studies Modules (Primary and Secondary).
	Master in Education Modules on Mathematical Problem Solving .
	Inservice Modules on Problem Solving (Primary), Geometrical Thinking (Primary) and Lower Primary Teaching SEED.

Research Interest

Ban Har has a broad interest in research, including in areas such as problem solving and problem posing, textbook studies and lesson study. He is the principal investigator in a funded project in eleven schools on the use of word problems to engage children in sense-making. Ban Har is on the editorial board of two mathematics education journals - An International Journal Mathematical Thinking and Learning by Lawrence Erlbaum and Mathematics Educator by Association of Mathematics Educators. He also sits on the school boards of two international schools. Ban Har has conducted workshops for teachers, including pre-primary teachers, in Singapore and numerous Asian countries as well as in United Arab Emirates, South Africa, Australia and the United States of America. He often conducts seminars for parents.

Selected Publications

	Yeap B. H., Ferrucci, B. J., & Carter, J. A. (2006). A comparative study of arithmetic word problems in Singaporean and American mathematics textbooks. In F. K. S. Leung, K. Graf, F. J. Lopez-Real (Eds), Mathematics education in different cultural traditions: A Comparative study of east Asia and the West. The 13th ICMI Study, (pp.213–225). New York : Springer.
	Yeap, B. H. (2005). Helping every student to develop the ability in mathematical problem solving: The Singapore experience. In S. Chaiyasang, P. Wongyai, & R. Janjaruporn, (Eds.). The Proceeding of Symposium on Mathematics Education: Mathematical Problem Solving (p. 3-12). Thailand: Srinakharinwirot University.
	Yeap, B. H. (2005). Building foundations and developing creativity: An analysis of Singapore mathematics textbooks. Paper presented at a regular lecture at the Third East Asia Regional Conference on Mathematics Education in Shanghai, China.
	Ferrucci, B. J., Yeap, B. H., & Carter, J. A. (2003). A modeling approach for enhancing problem solving in the middle grades. Mathematics Teaching in the Middle Grades, 8(9), 470-475.
	Carter, J. A., Ferrucci, B. J., & Yeap, B. H. (2002) Developing algebraic thinking. Mathematics Teaching, 178, 39-41.