I was the victim of what I call “Chinese math.” At age 26, I took my life savings and left a good engineering job to buy a sports training franchise. I didn’t have enough assets to get a loan so I ...
Hite Elementary is offering Chinese as its world language focus this year. Hite Elementary administrators hope Chinese classes will improve math performance. Last year the school implemented the ...
Via Prufrock (subscribe for free!), here’s a story about how a group of Chinese math and science teachers came into a British school for four weeks, and taught the kids there the Chinese way: 12 hours ...
Harvard mathematician Shing-Tung Yau says China trails the pack in his field. He's tapping money and power to change that. It was 1993 and China was bidding for the 2000 Olympics. with the country ...
If there is something that has the ability to trigger a huge surge of empathy between the Chinese and Indians, it would be mathematics. People from these two countries have, for years, labored under ...
A fashion major from a vocational high school in rural China has amazed the nation by outshining elite students in a global math contest – but the teenager’s underdog story has now been mired by ...
If you were to ask most any school superintendent or board member in America today, what are the two most difficult teaching positions on your staff to fill, their answer would most likely be math and ...
British education officials expect the benefits of the Shanghai Mastery model for teaching and learning mathematics to reach about half the primary schools in the United Kingdom as a result of an ...