Why are Asians so good at math?
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Because they value school and encourage their children to put hard work into study. Simple as that.
You can BS your way through a history exam after sitting in class and paying half attention, while being too lazy to do any homework. I know, I did that too. I got good marks for very little work.
You cannot BS your way through calculus. You have to sit down and sweat blood over the book to become really good at that. Except for a few evil geniuses out there, everybody else has to study hard to do well at maths. Asians study longer and harder than others.
You can BS your way through a history exam after sitting in class and paying half attention, while being too lazy to do any homework. I know, I did that too. I got good marks for very little work.
You cannot BS your way through calculus. You have to sit down and sweat blood over the book to become really good at that. Except for a few evil geniuses out there, everybody else has to study hard to do well at maths. Asians study longer and harder than others.
i always thought this was the main factor.. I mean the english alphabet is only 24 characters, compared to the literally thousands unique/abstract chinese characters. When you train your brain to remember and recall these at a young age, math (which is difficult and abstract for many people) becomes very easy.
I've had so many classmates during highschool and uni, who sucked when it came to other subjects but excelled in math. There was this girl especially who had just moved here from China... could barely speak english for classes but when it came to math exams/test, she'd be done in 30 mins and checked her answers twice while the whole class took about 1 and a half hour to complete the exam ><
lets not forget the hardwork they put in also... One can't excel in math just because they're asian and without studying it. And they do eat a lot of fish which is good for brain development
1. they work hard.
2. They study more because they are in a foreign county getting a better educaton than they would back home.
3. Alpabetical order in chinese script ( where every symbol is a unique pictogram) is organized in numerical order of strokes in the symbol. fewest strokes at the front of the book( a, b...), most number of strokes at the back of the line (... x, y, z)
2. They study more because they are in a foreign county getting a better educaton than they would back home.
3. Alpabetical order in chinese script ( where every symbol is a unique pictogram) is organized in numerical order of strokes in the symbol. fewest strokes at the front of the book( a, b...), most number of strokes at the back of the line (... x, y, z)
Asian schools are competitive with ours if not better when head to head in competitions. there's a standardized tests that countries compete in some Asian countries often do well.
So, are you guys saying if I download some papers on quantum mechanics and study hard, I'll be the next Stephen Hawkins or Einstein?
Outstanding scientists are not necessarily the product of the toughest
education system. Just because pre-university education in North
America is accessible and less than rigorous doesn't mean
it is going to miss out on the future Einstein and Hawking. As a matter of
fact a lot of very brilliant scientists have been brought up academically here.
I do think we have more to worry about our ability of our schools to produce
a sufficiently literate workforce in general to compete with the third world
in the near future.
education system. Just because pre-university education in North
America is accessible and less than rigorous doesn't mean
it is going to miss out on the future Einstein and Hawking. As a matter of
fact a lot of very brilliant scientists have been brought up academically here.
I do think we have more to worry about our ability of our schools to produce
a sufficiently literate workforce in general to compete with the third world
in the near future.
are all 1 billion chinese good at math? or are you talking about the one who get into university or are allowed to study abroad?
This.
One should be able to do multiplications without using a calculator for at least numbers from 1 - 20.
They are pretty good gymnasts, figure skaters, martial artists and table tennis players, badminton too.
We are good at driving, too, but we just choose to drive like assholes, so we can blend in. You know, when in Rome...
That might be taking it a tad too far. Japan and China were both losers in WW2. And the US and Russia beat you into space.
