Thursday, April 26th, 2007
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Posted by gls on 26 Apr 2007 | Tagged as: LMS
Not only did I not provide the link to the video the first time. It turned out that the video hadn’t even uploaded properly.
Chinese Math
Posted by gls on 26 Apr 2007 | Tagged as: Education, Society and Culture
America, in general, is lagging far behind a lot of the world regarding education, and this is particularly true with science and math.
Who’s ahead of us? It might be easier to ask who isn’t ahead of us.
Not surprisingly, the Chinese, in their quest for world domination (Mwa-ha-ha!), not only have cheap labor on their side; they also have a higher level of mathematics achievement, I’d venture.
The BBC recently put up two questions from two tests: one, a test intended for first-year university students in English schools; the other, a question from a Chinese pre-entrance exam.
Here’s the English problem:
That’s pretty simple. Even I, having used no geometry for close to twenty years now, can do that with no problems.
Here’s the Chinese problem:
