China beats US in reading math and science!

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Yep, we need more of the essentials like science and math an a helluva lot less of the silly shi+.

Its Sputnic all over again.

By the way, the U.S. has always scored low in math and science test competitions. Our elementary schools and not all that good. Fortunately the number of top flight mathematicians and physicists is always small. How many theoretical breakthroughs have the Chinese done lately?

How do the Chinese score in original and creative thinking?

ruveyn

Simple solution.

Send china all of our evangelical ministers.

In no time they will have the chinese people convinced that the Universe was created in one week in 4004 BC, and that there was no evolution. That will cause China to do a tail spin and go straight to the scientific dark ages, and we will have nothing to worry about!

I dont understand, whats so bad about that some student read better then other student. If you think your students dont read good enough, then this is as it is, no matter how other countries do in that test. Why does it depend on other countries results, if you think that your students dont do well enough or not?

So much for "No Child Left Behind."

China and other Asian countries have cultures that very much value education. The USA: not at all. As most of us who congregate here are painfully aware: someone who does well in an American school is looked down upon as a "nerd." In China, children strive to be "nerds."

This year it was the Chinese. Last decade it was the Koreans. The decade before that was the Japanese or Taiwanese. All are still great at math and science, but their gain has never been another's loss, as I am worried this OP is implying.

To me, this is talk of a yellow plague. This theme that little yellow people will overpower the white man has been around since at least 1905, if not longer. I'm sick of it.

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I've heard anecedotally that Asian languages are better structured to handle math than European ones, and that this is somewhat responsible for the stereotype of Asians being good at math. I want to say the example I was shown was that instead of saying "eighty", the Chinese language would say "eight tens", and you can see pretty easily how that would simplify math as it's one less conversion to make in your head. I've also heard that rice farming has created a cultural emphasis on precision, cooperation, and hard work, but again it's anecdotal. Damn fuzzy memory, I'm thinking this might have been something from Malcolm Gladwell or Jared Diamond, but I could have seen it elsewhere.