学术专栏-数学的魅力，并非从1开始|The Charm of Mathematics, not Start from No.1

Hegel once said, "Mathematics is the symbol that God use to describe nature." Mathematics has a long history in China. Every child begins with numbers for their mathematics enlightenment education, while the mystery of math is not just about numbers. Generally speaking, math is not only a course related to numbers, but also an interesting subject. It is not only a way of thinking but also a logical calculation.

Bilingual education is the main teaching method in Nord Anglia. We take bilingual mathematics teaching as the priority of our education. We believe this can enable our students not only to understand the mystery of math through Chinese, but also to learn math modules through English way of thinking. We hope our students can use both Chinese and English ways of thinking to study math more deeply.

With the development of society and the history of Chinese education, primary and secondary school mathematics teaching has become a subject that parents pay more attention to. It is because that primary school mathematics can cultivate the thinking ability of students, while secondary school mathematics can improve the students' macro control ability.

Is primary school mathematics the number of 1, 2, 3 that you are familiar with? Is it a single graphics-oriented learning? Is it 1 + 1 = 2? Perhaps in our traditional way of teaching, learning is step-by-step like that. But in Nord Anglia, while adhering to Chinese basic mathematics education, we use the combination of art and math to teach.

Recently, our students are actively participating in online courses. Students in the first grade of primary school began to learn graphics in recent courses. And our teachers combine color drawing with graphic learning in calss.

During 3D graphics teaching, teachers asked students to paint different colors for different graphics and record the number of the same graphics. Our students finally handed in their figures and numbers under colorful colors.

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Descartes once said: "Mathematics is the tool of knowledge, also is the source of the other intellectual tools. All the scientific research order and measurements are related to mathematics." Knowledge comes from life and is integrated into life. So is mathematics.

After finishing the combination of drawing and figures, our teacher guided students to look for mathematical figures in life and match the figures’ names. With the help of parents, they have successfully completed the advanced course. From fruit, to toys, basketball, cans, and even electric lights and the globe has all become the teaching aid for learning graphics.

As for the traditional middle school mathematics, the first thing come to our mind is about "problem solving", such as application problems, multiple-choice problems, filling-in-blank and so on. While our math teachers in the Mathematics Department of junior high school, Jenny and George, said that "Bilingual teaching is the major feature of our school. And it's also a factor that we consider to teach through entertainment when we design our class. " In order to help our students to memorize mathematics terms better, the teachers designed the term puzzle game. In this activity, students guess the corresponding words according to the prompts firstly, and the number of spaces will be filled in. At the same time, the intersection of up, down, left and right also provides clues for them to check whether they are right or not. This makes it easier for them to remember more terms.

Furthermore, in order to consolidate students’ knowledge more effectively and interestingly through the variety ways of learning, some activities are designed in our math class. Currently，Junior high school students are learning rectangular coordinate system in math class. They draw each point according to the provided coordinates, and connect them to get the animal patterns. After that, students can draw their favorite colors they like. Seeing cute animal patterns, they can understand rectangular coordinate system more intuitively.

Did you know about Math Kangaroo? This year, our school will become the test site of Math Kangaroo in China and will organize students to participate when the recruitment information once sent. Parents actively call for consultation, hoping that their children can participate in this global competition. Hitherto, we have received 30 Applications. Later, our school will organize training to help our students understand and participate in the competition.

Competition time: April 18, 2020 (Saturday) 14:00-15:15 (75 minutes)

Demo Test: yes, will provide 5 times demo test

Test: test from 2013 to 2017

Competition type: basic operation type, picture type, sudoku type, logical reasoning type, mathematical model

Training time: Waiting for our further notice.