8Asians.com: Asians *ARE* good at math and science
Michael
· 2 years ago
LOL. The real reason they do so well is that the bottom of the pool is eliminated. Here in Taiwan, until very recently, the bottom scorers weren't permitted to advance out of 8th grade. So this inflated scores. I also doubt that the people doing this study took the time to get a substantial cross section of the HS age kids -- rather, they got kids from the high schools, without bothering to note that only the top 20% of kids go to high cshool, the rest being shunted into vocational systems. Finally, long experience here has convinced me that any numbers generated here should be taken with a very large grain of NaCl.
Michael
akrypti
· 2 years ago
Ok this is very random, but I'm working on a book of short stories and as I write, I always run a Google search of the names I make up for my fictional characters, just to kind of get a feel of who else out there in the world have that name and what they're like. These names all happen to be Asian. And for about 80% of the fictional names I've Googled, there is an engineer or science professor or math professor or techie with that Asian name.
Just saying.
KJY
· 2 years ago
It's race, not place. That's why Asians have high achievement wherever they go. And it's race, not culture, which is why adopted Asians have IQs higher than the white mean.
John
· 2 years ago
Oh please. The genetic differences between the races are so small that I doubt it is race. It is educational institutions, funding priorities, culture etc.... Nutrition alone I am sure could explain a lot of differences between North Koreans and South Koreans.
Bertie
· 2 years ago
Here's an article I came across today on race and IQ. It might be an interesting topic to write about on 8Asians. Granted, discussing race and its correlation to IQ on the internet often turns into the online equivalent of napalm, but ignoring or pooh-poohing the topic is disingenuous.
(For the record, I think the discrepancy results from culture and the level of access to education.)
Evan
· 1 year ago
I'm now a U.S. High school student, coming from China last year. yep. China is not included in the list because there are not a lot chinese mainland students who taking the tests that were designed for English countries(like SAT,AP in U.S, A-level in the Commonwealth). so no statistic data available to compare chinese mainland students with other countries'. But I can definitely tell you that you math and science in mailand china will only be better than Hong Kong's and Taiwan's, not worse than them. I'm not sure about Korean, Japan, Vietnam, etc, Cuz there are not part of China(no matter PRC or "ROC")
kira
· 1 year ago
my teacher said that Asians parent are strict because they care about their childs education!!!
Bruised Lee
· 9 months ago
I am from Singapaore. Generally, Chinese are good in Maths as shown by the TIMS RESULTS in 1999,2003,& 2007. on S'pore,Hongkong & Taiwan. Although China was not included in the TIMS, we have many new Chinese immigrant from Mainland and most of their children performed very well in Maths and Science after they had immersed 2 to 3 years into our English School. In the International Maths & Science Olympia, for the last 10 yrs. China had dominated in Maths,Physics,Chemistry & Biology. Even participants from USA,Britain,Canada & Australia had many of Chinese descend; just like table-tennis in the Olympic Game. This has something to do with the Chinese/Confucious culture. We placed great emphasis & importance in Education. Korea, Japan & Vietnam shared similar culture. That's why their students were among the top 5. When I was six, my father made me memorise the Times Table. Adding and subtraction were part of the routine excercise. Most Chinese like to gamble and sometime they started from very young. Most gambling games involved in numbers and simple maths. By the time I was 12 yrs. old, I knew most of the card games & played "Mahjong" too. I realised it had help my mental calculation tremendously. I have adopeted my father's teaching on maths to my daughter and she got A's in her GCE "O" & "A" levels. However, I have discouraged her to gamble.
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Michael
Just saying.
(For the record, I think the discrepancy results from culture and the level of access to education.)
yep. China is not included in the list because there are not a lot chinese mainland students who taking the tests that were designed for English countries(like SAT,AP in U.S, A-level in the Commonwealth). so no statistic data available to compare chinese mainland students with other countries'. But I can definitely tell you that you math and science in mailand china will only be better than Hong Kong's and Taiwan's, not worse than them. I'm not sure about Korean, Japan, Vietnam, etc, Cuz there are not part of China(no matter PRC or "ROC")
by the TIMS RESULTS in 1999,2003,& 2007. on S'pore,Hongkong & Taiwan.
Although China was not included in the TIMS, we have many new Chinese immigrant from Mainland and most of their children performed very well in Maths and Science after they had immersed 2 to 3 years into our English School. In the International Maths & Science Olympia, for the last 10 yrs. China had dominated in Maths,Physics,Chemistry & Biology.
Even participants from USA,Britain,Canada & Australia had many of Chinese descend; just like table-tennis in the Olympic Game.
This has something to do with the Chinese/Confucious culture. We placed great emphasis & importance in Education. Korea, Japan & Vietnam shared similar culture. That's why their students were among the top 5. When I was six, my father made me memorise the Times Table. Adding and subtraction were part of the routine excercise. Most Chinese like to gamble and sometime they started from very young.
Most gambling games involved in numbers and simple maths. By the time I was 12 yrs. old, I knew most of the card games & played "Mahjong" too.
I realised it had help my mental calculation tremendously. I have adopeted my father's teaching on maths to my daughter and she got A's in her GCE "O" & "A" levels. However, I have discouraged her to gamble.