The post said: "There are many students from China and other Asian countries in the school, and they think they are good at math. Compared with them, I always get low marks, feel unhappy and feel stupid. I don't want to talk about race, I just want to know if all China people are really good at math. "
A big question in my study life
Quora netizens who are good at solving problems and fighting wits have sent answers. Next, let's see what they say.
Kevin D. Aslan, an American who has lived in Shanghai for more than seven years, believes that the average level of mathematics of China students is high, which is related to the expression of numbers in Chinese. Children in China can count from 0 to 99999 as long as they know 0 1234567890 million 14 when learning mathematics. Compared with the relatively complex expressions in English, it reduces the difficulty of getting started in mathematics learning.
Introduction to mathematics, learn these fourteen words.
Another example is that fractions are difficult for American primary school students to learn, which is also related to the complex expression of fractions in English. The relatively simple and intuitive expression of Chinese makes it almost impossible for most China students to understand the concept of fractions. The difficulty of getting started is low, and it is easy to get started, which makes the average mathematics level of China students relatively high.
Anthony Keic Wong, a user of Quora, believes that the higher average math level of China students is related to the importance attached by China families to math education. Children in China will learn some computing skills from a very young age, such as oral calculation, mental calculation and abacus calculation, which makes students in China have strong computing ability. However, he also pointed out that many people lost their enthusiasm for mathematics after being exposed to concepts such as advanced mathematics and calculus in high school. ...
Yes, that's them! ↑
I have nothing to say ... The students of Grade Three who just walked out of the examination room of Grade Three, your pain, the students on the other side of the ocean also feel the same!
There are also enthusiastic netizens who give advice to questioners. Netizen Tiffany said that if you want to improve your math scores, you have to read books over and over again like you want to get married with a math textbook until you fully understand the concepts inside.
Marry a math textbook ... is that right? ↑
Seeing foreign netizens chatting so happily, China students also want to say a few words. Chen believes that not all people in China are good at mathematics, but more than 90% people in China have no pressure on simple calculations. This is because students in China have to recite something called "99 multiplication table" from grade one or grade two.