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]]>In America, we place great value on natural talent. We idolize the sheer genius of Albert Einstein and the creative brilliance of Steve Jobs—framing their success within the idea that geniuses like these are born, not created.
We have a surprisingly antiquated and misguided idea of how real talent comes to be, and this mistaken belief is holding our country back. There is no place where this myth is more destructive than in education.
]]>Grade Four pupils in Chinese elementary schools are still taught how to use the abacus, although many of the little emperors – who could play Nintendo games before they could speak….Every taxi driver in Beijing can tell you about the competitions held between geeks on electronic calculators and geeks on abacuses. A proficient abacus geek can do complex calculations faster than a rival keying in the same sums on a calculator. The abacus can be used for even square and cube roots.
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Publication: Mathematics achievement of Chinese, Japanese, and American children
]]>Psychologists Jamie Campbell, Ph.D., and Qilin Xue, Ph.D., of the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, report in “Cognitive Arithmetic Across Cultures” on a straightforward study that compared the math performance and strategies of three groups of students who either were educated in different places or grew up in somewhat different cultures, resulting in interesting findings about their differing math performance, especially for complex math. Specifically, Campbell and Xue asked Canadian college students in each group — Chinese educated in the People’s Republic of China, Chinese educated in Canada, and non-Chinese educated in Canada — to solve simple and complex arithmetic problems, and to report how they solved them. Both Chinese groups were better at simple math no matter where they had gone to school, but only the China-educated Chinese were better (far better, at that) at complex math.
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