中英数学交流：英国需要一堂中国课
被黄沙掩盖的金子（PISA）
文化自信力去哪了（教改）
在中国国内各方围攻考试、提倡走班等西化路线时
英国人到上海取经
英国人关注什么
上海小学生数学能力达到了什么程度？
为什么上海的孩子那么喜欢数学？
学生数学能力与国家经济发展的关系？
如何培养优秀的数学教师？
如何推动教育均衡发展？
莉兹·特鲁斯《英国的学校需要一堂中国课》
上海是这样一座城市：即使你在电影或广告里见过，现实仍会让你始料不及。真正让人意想不到的事情出现在它的学校，上周我和一批英国教师和数学专家访华时亲眼看到了。
统计数字是众所周知的。上海普通学生的数学水平比我国学生高出三年，他们最差的学生比我国最优秀的学生高出整整一年。上海稳居经济合作与发展组织数学成绩排行榜之首。有时，据说这是以牺牲创造力为代价得来的。
然而，如果你真正参观过这些教室就会发现，死记硬背——所有孩子背诵一模一样的答案——的刻板模式根本看不到。教师并不独断专制，他们和蔼、专业。在我观摩的每堂课上，孩子们都热情高涨，积极回答问题，到黑板前向其他同学解释自己的思路。老师讲清概念，然后学生专心做练习并马上得到反馈。
这种从一开始的深度学习——着重于得到清晰讲解的传统方法——意味着这些学生到中学时就会全速前进。我在一堂课上看到14岁孩子学习的几何是英国学生要到高中最后两年才会遇到的。
我问学生们将来想做什么，最多的回答是“科学家”和“工程师”，还有“数学老师”。他们和他们的父母都明白，这对他们的前途很重要。常言道：“学好数理化，走遍天下都不怕。”
另一篇演讲稿
Maths is important for the future of our country
Improving our maths performance is also about the future potential of ourcountry.
We know that maths has the highest earning premium of any subject. And ithas a higher earnings premium in England than other countries; clearlyindicating huge demand.
There aren’t a fixed number of jobs. If we educate our population to abetter level in maths - businesses will want to locate in our country and new firmswill be established. We know is the correlation between maths scores andeconomic growth is increasing. It’s becoming more important.
And you can see why. From fashion to farming, the subject is vital. The app, Snap Fashion, selling clothes online - using maths. Or the algorithms infinance, coding in marketing, the use of data in TV or technology - all usingmaths.
So if we are ambitious for each individual - and ambitious for our country- we have to be ambitious about maths teaching.
But also - about access to culture in widest sense
But there’s more to maths than these practical reasons. For centuries,education was defined by the ‘liberal arts’ - the essential things you had toknow, to count as an educated person.
That included grammar, rhetoric, music - but also geometry and arithmetic.
That’s still the case today. That being educated - in its widest sense -means confidence with numbers. And we have a good record.
Look at the maths discoveries that came from Britain. Calculus. Logarithms.Standard deviation. The popular use of the decimal point.
Or the British inventions using maths: railways, tyres, submarines,computers, the jet engine, ultrasound - even curling uses maths.
You can’t understand our history without people like Sir Isaac Newton orAda Lovelace.
You simply can’t understand Britain’s place in the world without maths.