A Chinese teacher is bringing new ways of mathematics teaching to primary school classes in London, UK, as part of the country's effort to improve maths teaching standards.
Chinese maths teacher Chu Wenli, who previously spent six years teaching in primary schools in east China's Shanghai has been invited to teach at the Tudor Court Primary School in northeast London.
In a class for second grade students, Chu adds her own creative flair to maths teaching. Besides the 20 plus students, there were also teachers from other local primary schools.
"At this school they have a song teaching students good behavior. I changed the lyrics to: '1 and 9, 2 and 8, 3 and 7 are friends; 4 and 6, and double 5, they are also friends. These friends can make a 10'," said Chu.
Chu said second grade students lack basic knowledge of sums. She had to teach them what should have been taught in grade one.
Outside of her class, Chu has the students practice sums with the help of local teachers.
Sukwinder Samra, head of the London North East Maths Hub, welcomed the teaching method that Chu has brought to the school.
"Really because they are structured in a really good way just like your lessons are, where the learning and teaching progression is very clear, now schools are beginning to understand that teachers who haven't got a subject specialism in maths need to have support with subject knowledge and they need to have a resource like that," said Sukwinder Samra, head of the London North East Maths Hub.
Like many teachers who attended Chu’s class, Samra said they have learned much from the Chinese teaching method which combines games, summarization, repetition and practice.
According to a plan announced by the British Department for Education last July, the government will invest 41 million pounds over four years to help more than 8,000 primary schools to improve maths teaching. Schools will adopt the teaching approach used in Asia, especially in China, in the hope of improving their students' maths performance.
Children as young as five will be required to practice sums and exercises, and they must master each concept before moving on to more difficult material.
"There are teachers from other parts of the world coming to England all the time. As part of the maths hub program at the moment, it is only teachers from Shanghai," said Steve McCormack, director at the National Center for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics.
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