{"id":8468,"date":"2013-12-05T07:00:31","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T07:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/?p=8468"},"modified":"2018-12-29T06:04:43","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T06:04:43","slug":"asian-kids-beat-out-the-west-in-math-again-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/05\/asian-kids-beat-out-the-west-in-math-again-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Kids Beat Out the West in Math Again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Why do western nations like the US, Australian and the UK struggle to compete on the international stage when it comes to school mathematics?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A couple of days ago, the Programme for International Student Achievement (PISA)&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oecd.org\/pisa\/keyfindings\/pisa-2012-results.htm\">results&nbsp;<\/a>from OECD countries were released. I encourage you to go over and have a look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019d rather read someone else\u2019s summary of what is shown in the results, try one of these articles. It\u2019s fascinating to see the different interpretations put on the results in just these few media outlets:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-25205112\">Pisa tests: What do we know now?<\/a>\u201d (BBC, UK)<\/li><li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2013-12-04\/buckingham-pisa-panic\/5133364\">Don\u2019t Panic About PISA<\/a>\u201d (ABC Australia)<\/li><li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/datablog\/2013\/dec\/03\/pisa-results-country-best-reading-maths-science\">PISA 2012 Results: which country does best at reading, maths and science?<\/a>\u201d (The Guardian, UK)<\/li><li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/world.time.com\/2013\/12\/04\/china-is-cheating-the-world-student-rankings-system\/\">China is\u00a0Cheating the World Student Rankings System<\/a>\u201d (TIME, USA)<\/li><li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com.au\/pisa-rankings-2013-12\">Here\u2019s The New Ranking Of Top Countries In Reading, Science, And Maths<\/a>\u201d (Business Insider, Australia)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The big majority of visitors to this site are in the following five countries. Check out the position of each one on the mathematics test, out of 65 in the PISA rankings:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>USA \u2013 36th<\/li><li>Australia \u2013 19th<\/li><li>UK \u2013 26th<\/li><li>New Zealand \u2013 22nd<\/li><li>Canada \u2013 13th<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>What can educators in the West do about the relatively poor showing of their students in mathematics?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do western nations like the US, Australian and the UK struggle to compete on the international stage when it comes to school mathematics? A couple of days ago, the Programme for International Student Achievement (PISA)&nbsp;results&nbsp;from OECD countries were released. I encourage you to go over and have a look. If you\u2019d rather read someone &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/05\/asian-kids-beat-out-the-west-in-math-again-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Asian Kids Beat Out the West in Math Again&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-8468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-mathematics","tag-teaching-math"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8468"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8542,"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8468\/revisions\/8542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}