素质教育在上海（Quality education in Shanghai）.doc

素质教育在上海（Quality education in Shanghai） China Youth Daily2001 Chinese Youth Daily on Wednesday January 10th The freezing point of quality education in Shanghai [] Newspaper reporter Wang Wen What is the progress in 2000 China education is really important? Shanghai is a candidate to start using the calculator in the college entrance examination! A person who pays attention to education and said to me. Last July 8th, the media on the matter is just a very ordinary Short Message. Why? Because it marks the real progress of education thought, this move is to point to the liberation of the students. Dare to take this step, education must grow new things! In addition to the calculator into the exam, what progress? The reporter went straight to Shanghai. The calculator input and output, is a simple man-machine dialogue, but it changes peoples way of thinking the earliest suggestion is Professor Zhang Dianzhou, East China Normal University Department of mathematics. Professor Zhang, 67 years old this year, was straight talk was modern concept. At the end of 70s, there is a parents in foreign student to Professor Zhang a calculator. Professor Zhang looked very surprised: for sin, cos value, like 2, 10, cos34 degrees, before the look-up table, the teacher exam is to collect the numbers, now press out, very convenient! Professor Zhang immediately felt that this will be the emergence of new changes in education! The human brain to remember so many things, you may use a calculator instead of the tedious calculation, make time to do more. Professor Zhang mentioned this idea in the middle school mathematics seminar, immediately attracted intense opposition: this is how the line! The calculators are used, students will not head how to do? The calculator performance behind, power consumption is very large, at least one hundred yuan, the living standard of the people not to that extent, also do not meet the conditions. At the end of 1988, Professor Zhang attended the International Con