{"id":586,"date":"2011-05-01T05:11:12","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T09:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.williams.edu\/Morgan\/?p=586"},"modified":"2011-05-01T05:11:12","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T09:11:12","slug":"finding-math-prestigious-in-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/2011\/05\/01\/finding-math-prestigious-in-singapore\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Math Prestigious in Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mathematics and academics are respected and popular in Singapore. Supermarket check-out counters feature math &#8220;revision papers&#8221; (apparently Singaporean for &#8220;review guides&#8221;; first photo) and top students do product endorsements on billboards  (second photo).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2011\/05\/Aslaksen2.jpg\"> <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2011\/05\/Aslaksen1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-587\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2011\/05\/Aslaksen1-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"228\" \/> <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2011\/05\/Aslaksen2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-588\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2011\/05\/Aslaksen2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2011\/05\/Aslaksen2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2011\/05\/Aslaksen2.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 170px) 100vw, 170px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2011\/05\/Aslaksen2.jpg\"> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photos courtesy Helmer Aslaksen, my gracious host.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mathematics and academics are respected and popular in Singapore. Supermarket check-out counters feature math &#8220;revision papers&#8221; (apparently Singaporean for &#8220;review guides&#8221;; first photo) and top students do product endorsements on billboards (second photo). Photos courtesy Helmer Aslaksen, my gracious host.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14043],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}