I have a boy who is a 3rd grader and I saw algebra questions in his book the other day, many of them were similar to the "bad examples" raised in here, not much difference. E.g. Sue said that her family had 1.5 litter milk before breakfast, after breakfast, only 0.5 litter left. Is that possible?" Comparing to your book page problem, which one is worse? When I was in graduate school, I graded pre-calculus for Math department, the content was just about Chinese junior high level. The funny thing is that I got the answer sheet from the instructor and the answer sheet was wrong! In some colleges here, there is this class called "calculus using calculator" by the math department, you tell me.
kebob 发表评论于
文章的题目和内容很不匹配，题目说的是美国，文章的例子是加拿大的，不懂。
smallking 发表评论于
People who made comments shall first go through the Chinese math education and the American way of education before making comments.
To understand math is to understand the fundamentals behind the math. It is to understand the logic, reasoning, step by step behind these elegant formula or questions.
At a higher level, to understand the universe and the laws of nature, you need really good at grasping math, not just remembering how to solve the questions.
The American way of math education to high school/undergraduate is totally superficial. Don't you see the 30 years of rapid economic growth in China; isn't that not related to great number of the students graduated in China that are well educated in math and sciences!
In study and research, the most important thing is to find the question, not the answer. How can you find the question, that is the goal and target of education in North America. Even you can get 100 in exam, that just means you can repeat others' works very well. That's the reason so many "stupid" professors leading so many clever students.
math is the crown of the science. the current Chinese math education is much better, in my opinion, which teach the students, the fundamentals, not just something seems interesting in real life.
American/Canadian only learn the surface, or half-full. It will be very difficult for a country to grow without a large amount of graduates really understand math.
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