{"id":4200,"date":"2014-02-18T17:42:28","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T16:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/?p=4200"},"modified":"2014-02-18T17:42:28","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T16:42:28","slug":"education-minister-to-visit-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2014\/02\/18\/education-minister-to-visit-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Education Minister to visit China"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/73051000\/jpg\/_73051724_018238524-1.jpg\" alt=\"S\" width=\"200\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top\">The UK Education Minister Elizabeth Truss is going to lead a fact-finding mission to Shanghai in order to find out how children there have become the best in the world at mathematics.\n   <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<blockquote><p>(They) have a can-do attitude to maths, which contrasts with the long-term anti-maths culture that exists here.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Ms Truss<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In my opinion, there seems to be an  acceptable level of  mathematical ignorance in the UK and that needs to be addressed as a cultural issue as much as an educational one. <\/p>\n<p>Let us hope that Ms Truss returns with some good ideas on how to revitalise mathematics education.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Link<\/strong><br \/>\n<a title=\"BBC\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/education-26228234\" target=\"_blank\">Shanghai visit for minister to learn maths lessons<\/a> BBC News website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK Education Minister Elizabeth Truss is going to lead a fact-finding mission to Shanghai in order to find out how children there have become the best in the world at mathematics. (They) have a can-do attitude to maths, which contrasts with the long-term anti-maths culture that exists here. Ms Truss In my opinion, there &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2014\/02\/18\/education-minister-to-visit-china\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Education Minister to visit China<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-general-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}