Schools in the UK aided by USD 54.3 million funding will adopt Chinese method of teaching maths. Beijing: About 8,000 primary schools in the UK aided by USD 54.3 million funding will adopt Chinese ...

Via Prufrock (subscribe for free!), here’s a story about how a group of Chinese math and science teachers came into a British school for four weeks, and taught the kids there the Chinese way: 12 hours ...

New UK research confirmed for the first time that children taught math using a Chinese-style method fare much better than their peers, backing a decision to use such techniques in British primary ...

In 2015, Nature published a cover story about how the artificial intelligence firm DeepMind was training machine learning models to play old arcade games. Unlike dedicated chess supercomputers like ...

The predominantly Asian approach to teaching mathematics in schools, called the "mastery approach," is spreading, largely due to the fact these countries are high-performers on international tests.

When primary school administrators in the U.K. choose study materials for the fall semester this year, they will have a new option: math textbooks imported from Shanghai, a city celebrated as a global ...

British education officials expect the benefits of the Shanghai Mastery model for teaching and learning mathematics to reach about half the primary schools in the United Kingdom as a result of an ...

Education ministers plan to introduce the so-called maths method to schools in England to bring pupils up to par with their counterparts in China. Getty Images Health secretary Jeremy Hunt once ...

Things add up differently for native English speakers, compared with people who learned Chinese as a first language. Simple arithmetic was easily done by both groups, but they used different parts of ...

TSINGHUA, China, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- Chinese archaeologists say they have discovered the country's earliest mathematics document, written on bamboo more than 2,200 years ago. The document is a ...

Critics said that the students will not be able to master fundamental ideas merely through drills and repetition. Beijing: About 8,000 primary schools in the UK aided by USD 54.3 million funding will ...