Scores bolster case for Shanghai math in British schools


Students listen during a math class at Shanghai Experimental School as math teachers from Britain observe. - Xinhua

SHANGHAI (ANN): Top scores made by Chinese teenagers in a recent global academic test indicate the British government has made a good move by importing the Shanghai-style math mastery method into English schools over the last five years.

In the latest Program for International Student Assessment, commonly known as Pisa, run by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), 15-year-old students from Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, outperformed their peers from the other 78 participating education systems in mathematics and science by a wide margin. In reading comprehension scores, only Singapore came close.

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