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10“The Asian system is transparent,” says Karen
Fuson, a Northwestern University psychologist.
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think that it makes the whole attitude toward math
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different. Instead of beinga rote learning thing, there
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is a pattern I can figure oul. 『 There is an expectation
that I can do this. For fractions, we say three fifths.
The Chinese is literally, ‘out of five parts, take three.?
That is clearly telling what a fraction is."
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