The two U.S.-based mathematicians have become the first Chinese nationals to earn the honor considered math’s equivalent of ...

It comes down to Chinese people displaying a psychological concept known as a "growth mindset" at school ... while Americans only display this mindset in sports. For the most part, American children ...

Via Prufrock (subscribe for free!), here’s a story about how a group of Chinese math and science teachers came into a British school for four weeks, and taught the kids there the Chinese way: 12 hours ...

Teachers today face a conundrum: they lack the hours needed to help students master requisite proficiencies. This burden is amplified for those teaching language immersion classes. Some split their ...

Chinese teachers will be flown over to the U.K to boost British pupils' performance in maths and overhaul the way the subject is taught. Up to 60 English-speaking math teachers from China will be ...

Chinese-American kids do better at math than other American kids, starting their first days in kindergarten ahead of their peers and increasing their lead as the years go by. How so? One oft-cited ...

As a Chinese-Filipino, I celebrate the fact that the Chinese New Year is finally recognized as an official Philippine holiday. The Filipinos and the Chinese have had trade and social relations since ...

What's the best language for learning math? Hint: You're not reading it. As the WSJ's Sue Shellenbarger reports: Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Turkish use simpler number words and express math ...

Hite Elementary is offering Chinese as its world language focus this year. Hite Elementary administrators hope Chinese classes will improve math performance. Last year the school implemented the ...

Last week, we looked at the question of whether the Chinese have a genetic advantage over Filipinos in terms of math ability. The answer, of course, is no, as revealed by studies that showed that, ...