Friday, 20 March 2020

It is unimportant mathematics and science be taught in English

Posted to Facebook on 21/3/2020 9:08 AM
It is unimportant mathematics and science be taught in English"


English language is like Lego blocks. With the blocks, one can build small figurines as well as gigantic castles or even spaceships.

When one talks about Maths and Science subjects, they do not realise these are more than just subjects that can be taught in English language or any language with any loss in translation. Both subjects contain special languages, and technically speaking, more advanced papers can be written incorporating these special languages.

Historically China was great in many branches of maths, but the lack of Positional representation of numbers, and maths symbols, China fell behind in the development of powerful maths. In the ancient time in China, a number is written in words rather than Arabic-Hindu numerals.

Science formula and information of elements shown in a Periodic table are not normal English sentences conforming to the proper grammatical construct. They have their own rules and syntax.

There are debates going on in some countries whether maths and science be taught in English, my answer is "that's unimportant".

Thank you for readding.