素质教育在上海（国外英文资料）.doc

素质教育在上海（国外英文资料） China Youth daily, China Youth daily, March 10, 2001 The quality education is in Shanghai Our reporter wang wen What was the really important development of education in China in 2000? It is Shanghai examinee beginning to use calculator in the college entrance exam! One person who had been watching education said to me. On July 8 last year, the media had just sent a very small message. Why? Because it marks the real progress of education thought, the basis of this measure is to students liberation. Dare to step this way, education is sure to grow new things! What progress is there in addition to the calculator? The reporter headed for Shanghai. Calculator input and output, is a kind of simple man-machine dialogue, but it is changing peoples way of thinking first put forward the proposal is a professor at east China normal university mathematics Zhang Dianzhou. Professor zhang is 67 years old. He is straight and has modern ideas. In the late 1970s, a parent from abroad gave zhang a calculator. Professor zhang took a surprised: can ask the sine and cosine value, like, 10, 2 cos34 °, look-up table, before the teacher test will gather together, now the press came out, how convenient! Professor zhang immediately felt that this would be a new change in education! The human brain doesnt have to memorize so many things, so students can use calculators instead of tedious calculations to make time for more. Professor zhang mentioned in some middle school mathematics seminar on the idea that immediately drew fierce opposition: this how line! Use calculators, students wont be the mental arithmetic? At the time, the calculator was backward, the electricity consumption was very large, at least one hundred and eighty yuan one, peoples living standard was not to that extent, and it was not in accordance with the national conditions. At the end of 1988, professor zhang to attend the international conference on mathematics teaching, foreign experts demonstrates the la