为什麽中国没有得菲尔兹奖

China has the largest population, most talented people, most mathematicians (I guess) among all countries. Why haven't they received any Fields award? Even Iran got one. Something is seriously wrong with how they treat math. Don't tell me it's racial discrimination.

To me math is a way of thinking, how we see the world and how we model the world. It takes curiosity and imagination, that's what Chinese math lacks of. It's not about skills (although it involves skills), don't treat it as playing piano. Whereas Chinese math is mainly about skills. There are many professional mathematicians here (I'm not one of them), if you learn math together with your kids, you will find the differences. For example, in American math, kids learn place value, ones, tens, hundreds, etc. You think it's dumb, waste of time. But if kids learned this, it is so easy to switch from system of ten to system of two (binary system).  I remember I had a hard time in China to switch to binary. Slow is fast, remember the story of turtle and rabbit?

The problems with American math education are 1)some teachers are not qualified, and 2)students do not spend enough time on it. That's where parents can help. You do not need to introduce Chinese system, just follow American system and make sure your kids get it. Of course, you need to learn and try to appreciate American system first.

 

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• 不能怪中国中学老师吧 -got66- ♂ (65 bytes) () 10/27/2016 postreply 08:37:33

• 从哪里看出来的“China has most talented people”啊？ -教导l- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/27/2016 postreply 08:39:23

• 贵党领导中国70年，那么多历史错误仍然屹立不倒，这本身就是奇迹。 -千里一盏灯- ♂ (92 bytes) () 10/27/2016 postreply 08:47:20

• 我党应该改个名字得了，共产党这么名字全世界都臭大街了，人人喊打了。再说祖国早就不共产了。 -教导l- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/27/2016 postreply 09:03:56

• 好主意！那就改叫民主党吧。 -houmom- ♀ (169 bytes) () 10/27/2016 postreply 09:06:14

• 容易被误解吧，改社会党，人民党啥的。 -教导l- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/27/2016 postreply 09:08:05

• 你在国内没有学过位数？个位数，十位数，百位数，千位数。。。。 --百科-- ♀ (50 bytes) () 10/27/2016 postreply 08:41:14

• 你是男生吧，那估计老师教的时候你在调皮捣蛋，没认真听：） --百科-- ♀ (217 bytes) () 10/27/2016 postreply 08:45:21

• 只能怪学数学的不专一 -got66- ♂ (59 bytes) () 10/27/2016 postreply 08:48:00

• 美国的数学教育确实有问题，很多行内专家也在反思这件事。对于这一点不用文过饰非。 -千里一盏灯- ♂ (227 bytes) () 10/27/2016 postreply 08:43:59

• 丘成桐陶哲轩不算中国 -tibuko- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/27/2016 postreply 08:49:00

• 越南也有一个菲尔兹奖，人家至少在越南完成高中教育。 丘和陶跟大陆本土无关，到目前为止，凡是沾上我党教育的都没得奖。 -mmmwww- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/27/2016 postreply 09:10:19

• 日本人来了，得用t-26；德国人来了，得用t-34 -caral- ♂ (201 bytes) () 10/27/2016 postreply 08:59:03

• 查了一下数理化的菲和诺奖华人共十人，特点是都跟我党教育无关，民国香港台湾或国外的中学大学，最后在美国得奖。 -mmmwww- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/27/2016 postreply 09:02:32

• 这一点其实华人应该向你党学习 -caral- ♂ (270 bytes) () 10/27/2016 postreply 09:14:08

• 崔琦和新中国还是有点关系的，尽管他51年跑了，但留在祖国的父亲被我党饿死了。 -教导l- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/27/2016 postreply 09:14:54

• 话说陈景润当年的研究是不是可以得奖？最近那个张（？）研究的成果好像也很前端？ -N.- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/27/2016 postreply 09:29:59

• 年龄早过了。怪党和导师没好好培养。 -胡宙- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/27/2016 postreply 09:40:30