Singapore students excel in problem-solving, a global study
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Singapore’s 15-year-olds don’t just excel in mathematics, science and reading, they are also world beaters when it comes to solving complex and unfamiliar problems, a global study shows.
They and South Korean teens emerged No 1, beating students from 42 other countries and economies who took part in a problem solving test, a subset of the Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) study conducted two years ago which tested students skills in mathematics, science and reading.
For the online test on problem-solving, the 1,394 students here from across the streams in the 166 government secondary schools and six private schools including Madrasah Aljunied Al-Islamiah and Canadian International were required to tackle between four and eight problems with each problem containing several sub-questions.
For example, one question asked students to observe the simulated behaviour of a robot cleaner online and figure out the rules by which the robot cleaner operates.
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Chinese and Indian students didn't participate?
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the chinese responded 没事 n the indian with 圈的�能拿
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Can they solve the problem of why Sg has no Nobel Prize winners for mathematics and science?
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I have go to their OECD website and so far the test year only go back to 2012 : http://www.oecd.org/pisa/test
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Good to hear!
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Intelligent Textbooks Help Students Learn : http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/smart-takes/intelligent-textbooks-help-students-learn
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Originally posted by charlize:
Can they solve the problem of why Sg has no Nobel Prize winners for mathematics and science?
You mean ah loong mathematics expert not good enough to receive Nobel Prize.
they must have known ah loong lau qua is not noble to get the prize. Hahaha