The new British Prime Minister envy Chinese students' mathematics performance. 8 years ago, I came to Wuhan and Shanghai to learn from the scriptures 8 years ago

Jimu Journalist Li Lili

Britain ushered in the third female Prime Minister Elizabeth Tras. The 47 -year -old Tras has a wealth of politics and has served as the Minister of Justice, Minister of International Trade, Minister of State of the Affairs of Women and Foreign Ministers. Jimu Journalists noticed that in 2014, when serving as the deputy minister of the Ministry of Education and Children's Affairs, Tras had specially went to Shanghai and Wuhan to learn from the problems of poor mathematics results in British students.

On February 18, 2014, the "Independence Daily" published the article "The Minister of Education Tellas will go to Shanghai to find the secret behind the success of mathematics". The article records the envy of Chinese mathematics results in detail.

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According to reports, Trasse, then deputy minister of the Ministry of Education and Children's Affairs, believes that the level of Britain's mathematics education is really bad and is threatening Britain's productive forces and economic growth. She believes, "If people's attitudes towards mathematics will not change, Britain will suffer economic recession."

At that time, the Economic Cooperation and Development Organization announced the 2012 International Student Evaluation Program (PISA) research, and young people in the world participated in the project.

As a result, Britain ranked 26th with a average score of 494 points, far behind Asian countries such as China, Singapore, South Korea, and Japan. The average mathematical score of Shanghai students is 613 points, which is 40 points higher than the second Singapore.

According to the People's Daily Online report, the outstanding performance of Shanghai middle school students in PISA attracted the attention of the educational community in the world. On February 25, 2014, Elizabeth Tellas, deputy minister of British Education and Children's Affairs (the translation of Liz Trus at the time) led the British Education delegation, including mathematical experts and principals, visited Shanghai.

On September 7, Tellas took office as British Prime Minister (Picture Source: Xinhua News Agency)

At that time, they visited Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai Middle School, Jianping Middle School West School, and Fushan Foreign Language Primary School. Shanghai teachers pay attention to helping students understand the concept of mathematical concepts in a vivid way to impress her.

Jimu Journalists sorted out the information and found that after leaving Shanghai, Tras went to Wuhan on the 26th. She said at the time that she was also paying attention to the mathematical teaching situation of Wuhan primary and secondary schools, hoping to explore the regional differences and things in common in Chinese mathematics education.

Turs's trip to Wuhan has attracted attention in many Olympic training institutions in Wuhan.

In fact, Trasse's attention to mathematics can be described as since childhood. She grew up in an academic family. Her father John Tras was a professor of mathematics at the University of Leeds. Her mathematical results have always been very good.

After returning to Britain, Tras urged British mathematics teaching. "Shanghai is the best place for mathematics in the world -their achievements are far ahead."

"Our new courses draw on their practices, for example, early learning basic arithmetic, focus on learning the ninety -nine multiplication table and multiplication method."

She added that Shanghai students "have a positive attitude towards mathematics, which is in sharp contrast to Britain's long -term anti -mathematical culture."

Jimu reporters found that at that time, when Chinese students were generally good at oral and arithmetic, British elementary school students were still using calculators during the exam.

In a speech in June 2014, Tras once again mentioned this trip to China.

Tellas mentioned that Britain is establishing 30 mathematics centers across the country, hoping to improve the quality of mathematics teaching across the country, and change mathematical teaching by absorbing the best people around the world.

At the same time, Tellas actively cooperated with Shanghai School. Starting in September 2014, starting from elementary school, 2 teachers in each center will go to Shanghai schools to "internship". At that time, top mathematics teachers from Shanghai will enter an English school to bring back advanced teaching philosophy and educational methods.

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