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[quote=Anonymous]On PISA tests, it is widely understood in many parts of the world that China games the system. So their results simply are not believable.

However, S Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Canada, and most other countries are NOT gaming the system with their PISA results. Math as a actually taught in SG has lots of repetition and a spiral curriculum. They will go back periodically and reinforce math lessons from months ago. The US math curricula largely eliminated repetition (because it "bores students") and is sequential (not spiral) -- meaning that only rarely is there reinforcement now for lessons originally given months ago.

Also, in several higher ranked countries, even the elementary math teachers have actual BS Mathematics degrees (NOT "education" degrees and NOT "math education" degrees) -- and also are paid a bit more.  This means they actually know the material cold and can explain it more clearly than most US elementary math teachers. Teachers unions here object to paying math teachers with BS Mathematics degrees a bit more. [/quote]

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