At least this article highlights how poorly worded that problem was.
Also, the article correctly points out that Olypiad questions don't necessarily say much about the quality of an education system: if you were to judge the Soutb African education aystem by our Maths Olympiads, you'd probably be quite (incorrectly) impressed.
That said, many private schools here do use "Singapore Maths", so it'd be interesting to see what sorts of problems regular students have to solve.
> At least this article highlights how poorly worded that problem was.
I spent three minutes trying to parse the question before I gave up and reverse engineered the question from the answer. I love logic problems, but the delivery on that one was horrible.
Also, the article correctly points out that Olypiad questions don't necessarily say much about the quality of an education system: if you were to judge the Soutb African education aystem by our Maths Olympiads, you'd probably be quite (incorrectly) impressed.
That said, many private schools here do use "Singapore Maths", so it'd be interesting to see what sorts of problems regular students have to solve.