哪里出了问题？

毛絮 · 发表于 8-5-2012 21:13:41|来自：新加坡

very funny interview abt the maths questions http://www.edvantage.com.sg/edva ... s_stump_adults.html
as a lecturer majoring in math, i dunno how to do the question but the girl is so clever

Primary 3 math problems stump adults
RazorTV, Edvantage | Tue May 8 2012
Primary 3 math problems stump adults

Are our primary school math standards too high?

RazorTV picked three Primary 3 math questions from an assessment book and posed them to adults on the street.
Click here to find out more!

Should be a breeze, right? Not quite.

"Difficult", "very tough", and "no clue" were some of the responses from the adults, who also thought the questions were more suited for pupils in Primary 6 and secondary school.

Primary school math is obviously not what it used to be.

One concerned parent recently wrote in to the newspapers to complain about the unrealistic standards.

The parent said, "I have yet to observe any beneficial effects of pushing children so hard in primary school, apart from high stress levels and sapping of intellectual curiosity.

"Besides removing the joy in learning, another side effect of today's education system is that my children hardly have time to enjoy childhood."

However some might argue that there is nothing wrong with setting a high standard. After all, the Singapore education system has been praised especially for this.

In the Wall Street Journal article, "Education Is the Key to a Healthy Economy", published last week, it was revealed that as scores for math assessment tests rise, so does economic growth.

Comparing different countries around the world, Singapore and Taiwan were at the top.

"I think nowadays kids are smarter so they shouldn't have a problem doing these questions," said one of the adults interviewed. Having higher educational standards would also be important for Singapore's future, he said.

Kennise Lee, a Primary 3 student, said she found the question easy.

But Kennise said she did not encounter such questions during math class in school, which mainly covered subtraction, addition, multiplication and division.

Instead she learnt them at her maths tuition class, which taught her how to use abacus and fingers to solve problem sums of this nature.

While some parents complain that the high level of math takes the fun out of learning, others argue that it is necessary to maintain high educational standards.

But as Kennise showed us, perhaps it is just the adults who find the math problems challenging and expectations have to be adjusted as the years go by.