A Model for Teaching Maths - Shanghai, My Perfect Country Boxset

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BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Becoming a maths master is within reach for every pupil taught the Shanghai model for teaching maths.

There is no streaming according to ability, a highly trained, specialist teacher moves slowly through topics and does not move on until every single pupil gets it.

But does the method come with too much pressure?

Find more innovative ideas from the first series go to www.bbcworldservice.com/perfectcountry

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0:00.0	Hello I'm Fee Glover and you're listening to My Perfect Country on the BBC World Service.
0:05.0	What would you put in yours?
0:07.0	In My Perfect Country.
0:10.0	In My Perfect Country.
0:12.0	In My Perfect Country, fruits and vegetables
0:15.0	would be cheaper than the cost of drunk food.
0:17.0	People would be much more conscious of each other.
0:21.0	In my perfect country, there would be a beautiful places that I can go.
0:25.0	Kids would play much more.
0:28.0	I think in my perfect country there would be like lots of beaches and then free makeup. Lots of chocolate. We're building a
0:36.4	country people it's like a flat-packed state we've got the parts we've got the
0:39.9	tools now how do we put it together we want all the parts of our country to actually
0:44.8	work so we only look at striking all successful policies and not everything gets
0:49.0	past our quality control. In previous episodes we looked at the rise of state feminism
0:53.7	in Tunisia but decided that life still wasn't fair enough for Tunisian women so
0:58.0	that didn't make it in but we've also considered the roofs of Bermuda.
1:01.6	The government there enforces a policy which means every roof helps
1:05.0	collect much-needed water on the island and that one it did make it in.
1:08.6	Hello I'm Merta Lane Fox, and Hands Up Class, if you can guess what we're looking at this week.
1:17.0	As always, we're joined by Henry Ett Moore from the Institute for Global Prosperity.
1:24.3	Henrietta, do you know the answer?
1:26.7	Well, I do. We are in Shanghai today to find out about math teaching and why it's important. Is math really as important as it used to be?
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