"John Knight" <johnknight at usa.com> wrote in message
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> "Zayton" <zayton at bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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> >
> > It means, more specifically that Asian educational systems teach
> techniques
> > for taking eurocentric tests.
> >
> > Joe
> >
>> Bunk. Asians couldn't care less about taking "eurocentric" tests. None
of
> the Asian countries who beat the pants off us at the 8th grade level even
> bothered to take the 12th grade test, because they already knew what TIMSS
> was supposed to discover for them.
>> Do you "think" that 95% of Japanese high school gradutes COMPLETE calculus
> just because they emulate "eurocentric" tests? Heck, no. It's partly
> because they recognize the value of calculus, partly because they're
> *capable* of learning calculus, and partly because all their teachers
*know*
> calculus.
>> Do you know why less than 5% of American students even take calculus in
high
> school? Because 12 years of an "American" public "education" makes them
> uneducable--they CANNOT comprehend calculus, many of their teachers don't
> even know the multiplication tables, much less calculus, so most American
> students don't even know the value of calculus.
>> Math is an international language. There's nothing at all "eurocentric"
> about a math test.
Actually, Math is based on axioms. Since these axioms were created in
Europe, it could be viewed as a very eurocentric system. Also, the majority
of theorems were written and proven in the western world.
Also, strictly speaking, calculus isn't incredibly useful. Higher level
algebra is much more so.
