Breard's interest in Chinese scientific history was ignited by Chinese Mathematics: A Concise History, a book that chronicles ...

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. Americans suffer from an inferiority complex when it comes to math. They see ...

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 ...

The Mathematics Teacher (MT), an official journal of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, is devoted to improving mathematics instruction from grade 8-14 and supporting teacher education ...

In order to develop a deeper understanding of mathematics teaching expertise, in this study we use the Documentational Approach to Didactics to explore the resource systems of three Chinese ...

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 ...

Translation of: Chung-kuo ku tai shu hsüeh chien shih. Title on added t.p.: Chung-kuo shu hsüeh. CHINESE MATHEMATICS : A CONCISE HISTORY BY LǏ YǍN AND DU SHÍRÁN TRANSLATED BY JOHN N CROSSLEY AND ...

What's the best language for learning math? Hint: You're not reading it. As the WSJ's Sue Shellenbarger reports: Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Turkish use simpler number words and express math ...

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 ...