|
CHINA> Regional
![]() |
|
Chengdu wants 'Olympic math' training abolished
By Qing Zhongwei (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2009-07-08 15:13 Chengdu, the capital city of Sichuan province, is brewing harsh regulations to ban training for "Olympic math" -- known as Aoshu in Chinese -- Sichuan Online, a major local portal, reported today.
Authorities are considering a prohibition on teachers who work part-time to teach Aoshu, forbidding aoshu from being used in enrollment examinations for primary and secondary schools, and removing the heads of schools who give weight to Aoshu performances while enrolling students. Olympic math education has become a common way to judge students' skills and logic with numbers across China. A lot of parents, especially in the cities, force their kids to take extra classes for Olympic math, considered a stepping stone to top schools. "This form of math has already hampered students' growth. It overloads them with knowledge they can't hold," said an official. The media once reported that a Olympic math question on a fifth grader's examination paper even stumped a college student who got a doctorate degree in mathematics, and took him half an hour to solve. |
黄大仙区| 乌鲁木齐市| 嘉定区| 理塘县| 会理县| 万州区| 合山市| 郯城县| 铁岭县| 吴忠市| 恩平市| 全椒县| 荃湾区| 九龙坡区| 铜鼓县| 兴城市| 三原县| 安化县| 长治县| 荥经县| 东乌珠穆沁旗| 武强县| 屯昌县| 东丰县| 雷山县| 苏州市| 罗平县| 克山县| 高州市| 财经| 广饶县| 定边县| 新绛县| 衡南县| 弥渡县| 富裕县| 原阳县| 大方县| 台南县| 孝义市| 仙居县|