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  3. Read carefully the following excerpt on primary schools in England intending to adopt Chinese-style mathematics education and th

Read carefully the following excerpt on primary schools in England intending to adopt Chinese-style mathematics education and th

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问题     Read carefully the following excerpt on primary schools in England intending to adopt Chinese-style mathematics education and then write your response in NO LESS THAN 200 words, in which you should:
    . summarize the main message of the excerpt, and then
    . comment on whether Chinese-style education has more merits than drawbacks. You can support yourself with information from the excerpt.
    Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.
                                Primary Schools in England Adopt Chinese-style Mathematics Education
    As reported by The Times, half of primary schools in the UK will soon adopt the traditional Chinese method of teaching mathematics. Teachers will be specially trained and given new textbooks with which to teach the "Shanghai math" method. The new teaching style will rely heavily on repetition, drills and "chalk and talk".
    Previous tests have shown that the average mathematics ability of 15-year-olds in Shanghai is three years more sophisticated than that of their counterparts in the UK.
    Nick Gibb, the Minister of State at the Department of Education, announced that training will be provided for 8 000 primary schools—half the country’s total—to switch to the Shanghai approach.
    "We are seeing a renaissance in math teaching in this country, with good ideas from around the world helping to enliven our classrooms," he said.
    Critics of the new program complain that the "progressive" math-teaching style used in China, Singapore and Japan is difficult to apply to real-life situations. Others say that the reform would lead to confusion, and could even stop children from learning the basics and enjoying the subject.
    Mike Ellicock, chief executive of National Numeracy in the UK, says it is necessary for children to learn the basics of math so that they can be confident about the subject, and repetition and drills are not the right way to achieve that. Ellicock believes it is inappropriate to simply import a teaching method from such a different culture.
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答案 What Is Wrong with Chinese Education? The adoption of the traditional Chinese method of teaching mathematics with its emphasis on repetition, drills and " chalk and talk" by half of primary schools in the UK has attracted attention on this issue. Supporters approve of the progressive style, for it surely elevates the mathematics ability of students while opponents fight against it, saying the style is difficult to apply to real-life situations and the reform would lead to confusion and could stop children from learning the basics of mathematics. A glimpse of the hefty backpack of any schoolchild may give you a true picture of what is going on with Chinese education, be it of mathematics or of English. Young and premature though children are, they have to shoulder the burden of Chinese education which emphasizes the so-called "rote" learning, something we shouldn’t be proud of at all despite high scores it may incur. Sadly though, the core of education—one’s initiative of active learning, ability of questioning and problem-solving, and critical thinking—is missing in our featured education so much so that children are woefully undergoing travail that is doomed to last more than a decade long. It is high time that we stopped attaching greater importance to pure scores than to the overall development of children. The knowledge economy our nation is experiencing has an urgent call for boffins with practical know-how rather than those whose brains are stuffed with knowledge inapplicable to the market. The key lies exactly in how we educate children!
解析     本题讨论的是与中国教育模式相关的话题。选段中以英国决定将在国内一半的小学中采取“上海数学”教学模式这一现象引出不同人士对中国教育模式的不同看法。本题的写作重点在于：首先概括选段中的中国数学教育模式的特点，并概括不同人士对此的看法，其次论述中国教育模式是否利大于弊。
    开头部分首先开宗明义。以英国引用“上海数学”教学模式为引子，引出中国教育模式这个话题；接着概括选段中对此话题的不同态度。
    中间部分首先通过上学儿童的厚重书包引出中国教育的问题。即填鸭式死记硬背的教学法使孩子们承受了过多的学习压力：接着指出这种灌输式教学的弊端。
    结尾部分首先提出倡议，建议停止这种只会培养出高分低能的学生的教学方法；然后指出中国的知识经济呼吁培养有实际技能的人才；最后倡导教学法改革。
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