Comments on: No, Seriously: Asians are Good at Math http://www.8asians.com/2009/04/01/no-seriously-asians-are-good-at-math/ A blog for Asian Americans Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:27:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: animefreak10144 http://www.8asians.com/2009/04/01/no-seriously-asians-are-good-at-math/comment-page-1/#comment-166033 animefreak10144 Sun, 01 Jan 2012 16:58:37 +0000 http://www.8asians.com/?p=2904#comment-166033 According to my mom, there is some Asian in me (but I don't look like it). I have hated math from an early age (say around Middle School years). I have tried and tried and tried to do my best in Math, and never succeeded. ~ I have been spending every 3hrs of my time (once or twice )working from a math textbook for college and High-School students, to improve my skills. I have seen a little improvement from what I learned as a school age student. I didn't start sticking my head into textbooks for so long, until I flunked 3 Math classes (College Algebra) in a row (semester-after-semester-after-semester) According to my mom, there is some Asian in me (but I don’t look like it).

I have hated math from an early age (say around Middle School years). I have tried and tried and tried to do my best in Math, and never succeeded. ~ I have been spending every 3hrs of my time (once or twice )working from a math textbook for college and High-School students, to improve my skills.

I have seen a little improvement from what I learned as a school age student.

I didn’t start sticking my head into textbooks for so long, until I flunked 3 Math classes (College Algebra) in a row (semester-after-semester-after-semester)

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]]> By: 윤선 http://www.8asians.com/2009/04/01/no-seriously-asians-are-good-at-math/comment-page-1/#comment-118379 윤선 Sat, 04 Apr 2009 14:28:31 +0000 http://www.8asians.com/?p=2904#comment-118379 I am Asian and I fail at maths. Big time. There must be something wrong with me. XD I am Asian and I fail at maths. Big time. There must be something wrong with me. XD

]]> By: 윤선 http://www.8asians.com/2009/04/01/no-seriously-asians-are-good-at-math/comment-page-1/#comment-140777 윤선 Sat, 04 Apr 2009 14:28:00 +0000 http://www.8asians.com/?p=2904#comment-140777 I am Asian and I fail at maths. Big time. There must be something wrong with me. XD I am Asian and I fail at maths. Big time. There must be something wrong with me. XD

]]> By: Dick Richards http://www.8asians.com/2009/04/01/no-seriously-asians-are-good-at-math/comment-page-1/#comment-118369 Dick Richards Sat, 04 Apr 2009 10:17:59 +0000 http://www.8asians.com/?p=2904#comment-118369 My nieces are 3 and 5 years old and they can use the abacus (そろばん）They go to a special sensei every week. They enjoy it. I wont comment if it is appropriate to be pushed into but I tell you they will be "good at math". They are teaching my son and he cant speak a language yet. My nieces are 3 and 5 years old and they can use the abacus (そろばん）They go to a special sensei every week. They enjoy it. I wont comment if it is appropriate to be pushed into but I tell you they will be “good at math”. They are teaching my son and he cant speak a language yet.

]]> By: Dick Richards http://www.8asians.com/2009/04/01/no-seriously-asians-are-good-at-math/comment-page-1/#comment-140776 Dick Richards Sat, 04 Apr 2009 10:17:00 +0000 http://www.8asians.com/?p=2904#comment-140776 My nieces are 3 and 5 years old and they can use the abacus (そろばん）They go to a special sensei every week. They enjoy it. I wont comment if it is appropriate to be pushed into but I tell you they will be "good at math". They are teaching my son and he cant speak a language yet. My nieces are 3 and 5 years old and they can use the abacus (そろばん）They go to a special sensei every week. They enjoy it. I wont comment if it is appropriate to be pushed into but I tell you they will be “good at math”. They are teaching my son and he cant speak a language yet.

]]> By: ann http://www.8asians.com/2009/04/01/no-seriously-asians-are-good-at-math/comment-page-1/#comment-118348 ann Sat, 04 Apr 2009 03:40:58 +0000 http://www.8asians.com/?p=2904#comment-118348 This is just an interesting fact that might or might not add to the discussion. There is a reader's digest issue from 1950 that mentions a math contest between a Japanese engineer and one of the first American computers ever built. Using the abacus, the engineer soundly beat the computer at addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. I imagine it is as mentioned, that the simple computations are memorized from an early age. This is just an interesting fact that might or might not add to the discussion. There is a reader’s digest issue from 1950 that mentions a math contest between a Japanese engineer and one of the first American computers ever built. Using the abacus, the engineer soundly beat the computer at addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. I imagine it is as mentioned, that the simple computations are memorized from an early age.

]]> By: ann http://www.8asians.com/2009/04/01/no-seriously-asians-are-good-at-math/comment-page-1/#comment-140775 ann Sat, 04 Apr 2009 03:40:00 +0000 http://www.8asians.com/?p=2904#comment-140775 This is just an interesting fact that might or might not add to the discussion. There is a reader's digest issue from 1950 that mentions a math contest between a Japanese engineer and one of the first American computers ever built. Using the abacus, the engineer soundly beat the computer at addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. I imagine it is as mentioned, that the simple computations are memorized from an early age. This is just an interesting fact that might or might not add to the discussion. There is a reader’s digest issue from 1950 that mentions a math contest between a Japanese engineer and one of the first American computers ever built. Using the abacus, the engineer soundly beat the computer at addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. I imagine it is as mentioned, that the simple computations are memorized from an early age.

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