{"id":357,"date":"2007-04-26T17:22:31","date_gmt":"2007-04-27T00:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/blog\/?p=357"},"modified":"2007-04-26T17:22:31","modified_gmt":"2007-04-27T00:22:31","slug":"uk-vs-chinese-math-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2007\/04\/26\/uk-vs-chinese-math-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"UK vs Chinese Math Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/education\/6589301.stm\">BBC NEWS<\/a> reports British chemists as pointing out the difference between an admission test for Chinese science undergrads and a UK university&#8217;s diagnostic test for incoming students. But perhaps they are comparing Chinese apples with British oranges (or  vice versa?)<br \/>\nAfter all, in the Chinese <a href='http:\/\/092.me'>question<\/a> (assuming that by &#8220;square prism&#8221; they  mean &#8220;right prism&#8221; &#8211; which is what it looks like) part (ii) could be on  the senior level of our own BC high school math contest (and so could the  rest if our high school students had any exposure to vectors), and the UK one could  be a soft pitch from our Langara\u00a0 Math Diagnostic Test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC NEWS reports British chemists as pointing out the difference between an admission test for Chinese science undergrads and a UK university&#8217;s diagnostic test for incoming students. But perhaps they are comparing Chinese apples with British oranges (or vice versa?) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2007\/04\/26\/uk-vs-chinese-math-tests\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}