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Teaching Mathematics to the Chinese ....... Who Me??

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October 13th 2012
Today’s seminar at the JJL education agency was fantastic. It started off with my Mathematics lesson. Not bad for someone who couldn’t stand maths at school to find themselves teaching maths to the Chinese!! My class was made up of seven students, two eight year olds and the rest senior high school students. What to do with such a diverse group? Total surface area of a Mars bar of course. Rem ... read more

Asia » China » Sichuan » Chengdu

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more