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The Singapore Model Method is a pedagogical strategy that was developed by a team of curriculum specialists in the Singapore Ministry of Education in the early 1980's to address the issue of students having difficulty with word problems in early years of school. It has since become a distinguishing feature of the Singapore primary mathematics curriculum. Using this method, students represent the information in the problem pictorially using bars to represent numbers. The model show explicitly the problem structure, the known and unknown quantities, and provides a visual tool that enables students to determine what operations to use to solve the word problems.