Why are asians so good at Math? - Page 3

Originally posted by: qwertyesque

Can you please give the smallest prime number without googling....?

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isnt it 2😕

I think there is a fascination about Maths among Asians (Indians I mean as I have never been outside India), it is also a question of perception...doesnt matter if you score 100% in other subjects, agar maths mein aapke marks nahin aaye to aap intelligent nahin hain.

I think there is a fascination about Maths among Asians (Indians I mean as I have never been outside India), it is also a question of perception...doesnt matter if you score 100% in other subjects, agar maths mein aapke marks nahin aaye to aap intelligent nahin hain.[/QUOTE]

True!!! U R right !! BTW I heard u r poor in maths!!!😆😆😆

Originally posted by: mythili_Kiran

True!!! U R right !! BTW I heard u r poor in maths!!!😆😆😆

What? Where did you hear that? Hmmm...let me make a guess...😕

I was pretty good till 10th lekin 11th/12th mein I didnt study well so scored poorly. Tab se maine apne aap ko maaf nahin kiya...uss bhayankar galti ke liye. 😆

Originally posted by: SolidSnake

What? Where did you hear that? Hmmm...let me make a guess...😕

I was pretty good till 10th lekin 11th/12th mein I didnt study well so scored poorly. Tab se maine apne aap ko maaf nahin kiya...uss bhayankar galti ke liye. 😆

i think if you can do 2x2, 2x3... 9x9..etc you are then good at math.. now are you?😆

Belive me... Whatever you do in Pak/ India in grade 5 we do it here in grade 7/8.. 😆

HEre is an article:


Math anxiety saps working memory needed to do math

By Julie Steenhuysen
Mon Feb 19, 9:03 AM ET



SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Worrying about how you'll perform on a math test may actually contribute to a lower test score, U.S. researchers said on Saturday.

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Math anxiety -- feelings of dread and fear and avoiding math -- can sap the brain's limited amount of working capacity, a resource needed to compute difficult math problems, said Mark Ashcroft, a psychologist at the University of Nevada Los Vegas who studies the problem.

"It turns out that math anxiety occupies a person's working memory," said Ashcroft, who spoke on a panel at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Francisco.

Ashcroft said while easy math tasks such as addition require only a small fraction of a person's working memory, harder computations require much more.

Worrying about math takes up a large chunk of a person's working memory stores as well, spelling disaster for the anxious student who is taking a high-stakes test.

Stress about how one does on tests like college entrance exams can make even good math students choke. "All of a sudden they start looking for the short cuts," said University of Chicago researcher Sian Beilock.

Although test preparation classes can help students overcome this anxiety, they are limited to students whose families can afford them.

Ultimately, she said, "It may not be wise to rely completely on scores to predict who will succeed."

While the causes of math anxiety are unknown, Ashcroft said people who manage to overcome math anxiety have completely normal math proficiency.

Originally posted by: SolidSnake

What? Where did you hear that? Hmmm...let me make a guess...😕

I was pretty good till 10th lekin 11th/12th mein I didnt study well so scored poorly. Tab se maine apne aap ko maaf nahin kiya...uss bhayankar galti ke liye. 😆

@ Solid Snake ji!! Whether you agree or not people good at maths are most of the times intelligent.BTW did I say you are not good at Computer Science!! You are good at computer science it means ,you might be good at Maths unknowingly!!

BTW Elementary Mathematics really helps in Algorithms of Computer Science Subjects.Asians are good at Maths,may be this is the reason for lot asians in USA Software Companies!!

@MNMS: Good Article !!!!

Cheers,

Mythili

Originally posted by: angel_wings

ohk...if you ask me ...I'm always poor when it comes to anything involving numbers 😛 😆 ...so you just can not generalise as it depends on the aptitude not on environment or nationality

same here. from the nationality asians are good at math
mostly like japanese and chinese.some indians are good at math but not as many as chinese and japanese. for me
i am not good at math

Originally posted by: CuteFairy91

Belive me... Whatever you do in Pak/ India in grade 5 we do it here in grade 7/8.. 😆

agree