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Re: California SAT-9 Testing.
Posted:
May 30, 2000 9:39 PM
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Sarah Wethered <swethered@home.com> wrote in message
news://c86uiscp26ohe2hpt0946figs6476jdpdd@4ax.com...
> I teach all Asian kids, and they tell me that the math curriculum in
British
> Columbia is a joke compared to the math curriculum in Japan, Honk Kong, or
> Taiwan. Perhaps the students from Asia do so well, because North American
> math standards are much lower than in Asia. One of our teachers who did
all
> his school in Taiwan said that grade 12 math in Taiwan is equivalent to
first
> or second year university calculus here in Canada.
>
> Sarah
>
Not true. At least to the reference to Taiwan's curriculum. I have a set
of the standard math text from there. They track students into
science-engineering
and humanity-social science. The advanced math are taught to
science-engineering
students, and finish with the informal introduction to derivatives. It
would be more like
exception than norm for students taking AP calculus in high school level.
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