"经常能听到某些媒体说,美国很多人连加减乘除都不会。美国的高中生可能会有一部分学生的加减乘除没学好,但总不能专找美国最差的学生和中国学生比较,干吗不找他们优秀的学生来进行比较?
所以,之前有报道说中国学生出去留学数学是最牛的,这是片面的。中国最好的学生与美国最好的学生相比,在学科准备上有一段差距."
Like I always said, Chinese students has problems on pure science majors because of their math. I don't know much about math. But when my son showed me his class work, I felt dizzy because all are math equatiosn and very few words. He is not a math major and he said most of his work done by math and then used in lab. By the way, his friend in math major in same school found job in wall street each year from freshment and make a lot of money. I had asked if he regreat about his major and he said: so what, what he did is not what I wanted.