我的觀察

1. The overall math skills for Chinese students have declined.  This could be due to two reasons:

1A. More Chinese students are coming to the US, so the average is lower.

1B. After passing the college entrance exam and once getting into a university, a Chinese student in China no longer studies hard (not limited to just math).  I am surprised that students working on their master's theses openly complain to me that they cannot simply copy something from the Internet.

2. Even though high school students' math skills are generally higher than that in US, it does not translate that this skill will be applied to decision making processes (other than quick mental math in the flee market).  For example, swine flu was totally a non-issue, but Chinese government decided it was the most dangerous disease and very few people question it.  When I pointed this out to people in China, other than university professors, no one believed my math even though I showed them the statistics.  In other words, they do not know how to apply the math they learned in high school.

所有跟帖： 

• statistics often depends on some assumptions -locke- ♂ (130 bytes) () 03/23/2012 postreply 11:57:18

• That is where the bad math comes in. -pieq314- ♀ (556 bytes) () 03/23/2012 postreply 12:08:38

• Maybe you are right.:) I guess they were scared by SARS before. -locke- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/23/2012 postreply 12:21:32

• 是有這個趨勢 -aChineseBostonian- ♂ (199 bytes) () 03/23/2012 postreply 12:00:39

• Yeah. -pieq314- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/23/2012 postreply 12:09:57

• 這當然是好事情 -aChineseBostonian- ♂ (53 bytes) () 03/23/2012 postreply 14:00:44

• 中國最終還是更相信領導拍板子 -勿來三- ♂ (123 bytes) () 03/23/2012 postreply 12:01:31

• Yeah. -pieq314- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/23/2012 postreply 12:09:29

• 中國學生缺乏創造力， 幹活倒是不錯 -比花花還花- ♂ (83 bytes) () 03/23/2012 postreply 13:57:12

• 嗯 -pieq314- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/23/2012 postreply 16:25:09

• 南方周末記者當年的數字考試分數肯定也比美國記者高。 -pieq314- ♀ (110 bytes) () 03/23/2012 postreply 16:22:50

• Agree. The overall math skills for Chinese students have decline -2544- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/23/2012 postreply 19:30:24