In these politically correct times, it is still acceptable to use the term “Chinese math.” It’s not a negative comment about ethnic Chinese, but describes the sham logic seen in poorly thought out ...

Harvard mathematician Shing-Tung Yau says China trails the pack in his field. He's tapping money and power to change that. Americans suffer from an inferiority complex when it comes to math. They see ...

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 ...

Some visitors explore the exhibition Liu Hui, a leading founder of classical Chinese mathematical theories at Réfectoire des Cordeliers in Paris on September 24, 2024. A year-long global commemoration ...

Fifth-graders in China's Shunqing district were recently asked to answer this question: “If a ship had 26 sheep and 10 goats on board, how old is the ship's captain?” The apparently unsolvable ...

Having established an international reputation in the field of mathematics, US citizen Shing-Tung Yau is now hoping other young Chinese will follow in his footsteps. "I sincerely hope that, one day, ...

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 ...

China’s approach to teaching math and science differs sharply from that of the United States, concludes a report that details the Asian nation’s use of strong national standards, a logical progression ...

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 ...

Teachers today face a conundrum: they lack the hours needed to help students master requisite proficiencies. This burden is amplified for those teaching language immersion classes. Some split their ...

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 ...