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SHANGHAI nike grandstand ii uk , March 18 (Xinhua) -- Shanghai's education authority has begun drafting a program to recruit math teachers from the city's schools to teach in the UK at the invitation of the UK Department of Education, according to sources with the city's education committee on Tuesday.
The invitation came earlier this month after British parliamentary under-secretary of state for education and childcare, Elizabeth Truss, made a visit to Shanghai for a first-hand look at math classes and teaching methods in February.
A Shanghai education official nike hyperadapt 1.0 uk , who declined to be named, said on Tuesday that the municipal education committee is researching details in order to finalize program planning in April. The details include teachers' salaries, recruitment requirements and the terms of the guest teaching.
Shanghai topped the 2012 international PISA tables for math, while England was ranked in 26th place. The top five were all Asian jurisdictions nike air more money uk , with 15-year-olds in Shanghai judged to be three years ahead of their peers in math.
Truss's trip was part of the UK government's math improvement program.
Truss led a group of education experts to attend three lessons in Shanghai -- one in a primary school and the other two in two middle schools.
Truss and other members of the delegation said they were impressed by the children's fast arithmetic skills and the lively classroom atmosphere.
Wu Guolin, principal of the Shanghai Jianpingxi Middle School, one of the schools that Truss visited, said math teachers from China would bring changes to the UK teaching mode nike zoom vaporfly uk , as Chinese schools focus on applied mathematics in basic education.
He said Chinese schools have borrowed a lot of Western teaching methods, and would continue to do so, as Western teaching gives students more freedom in autonomous thinking.
While visiting Shanghai Fushan Foreign Languages Primary School, Truss observed a grade three junior math class playing 24 nike odyssey react womens uk , an arithmetical card game. Zheng Rujie, math teacher at the school, said the card game is like ""thinking gymnastics"" for the students and is a good way to practise the arithmetics required in the teaching curriculum.
Shi Huixin, principal of Shanghai Fushan Zhengda Foreign Languages Primary School nike odyssey react mens uk , said class teaching is just part of the work for Chinese math teachers. Teachers also correct students' homework and prepare teaching plans.
""While correcting students' papers, teachers can check students' mathematical thinking and explain to them when problems are found,"" he said.
Liu Zhongtao, a student from Fudan Middle School www.odysseyreactuk.com , was among the students to take the 2012 international PISA test. He said he finished the two-and-a-half-hour exam with one hour to spare.
Tang Shengchang, head of the Shanghai Comparative Study on the International Course in Basic Education, said in addition to the teaching standards, Chinese students' high performance in math is a result of the social environment.
He explained that in China nike odyssey react sale uk , math scores are often used to determine the intelligence and learning capabilities of a student from primary school enrollment to elite higher-learning institution recruitment.
""Both teachers and students feel the pressure from the social environment that math performance is important,"" he said.
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RIO DE JANEIRO， Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- The glamor of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro is a world away from his modest upbringing， but China's Lin Yue has not forgotten his roots.
The 25-year-old diver said on Monday that his triumph alongside Chen Aisen in the synchronized 10m platform in Rio would not have been possible without the sacrifices of his parents.
Lin and Chen posted an overall score of 496.98 to finish ahead of US pair David BoudiaSteele Johnson (457.11) and Britain's Thomas DaleyDaniel Goodfellow (444.45) in the final at the Maria Lenk Aquatics Centre.
Lin explained how， when he was a child， his parents had sold the family's house in Chaozhou， Guangdong province， to send their son to train in Beijing.
"The only thing in my mind is that I have to do all I can do for my family to thank them for supporting me，" he said.
It was Lin's second Olympic gold medal in the event after his victory at the Beijing 2008 Games alongside Huo Liang.
Despite winning Monday's final by a comfortable margin， Lin said the performance was not without its faults， citing a mistake on the fourth dive， a triple backward somersault.
"We did really well in our performance today， very stable，" he said. "We did our best， but I don't think it was perfect. All I can say is that we did our best. It was like a dream.
"The mistake we made is that we had a little bit of hesitation during our jump， so we did not handle it very well."
China have won both of the diving gold medals decided so far at the Rio Games.
On Sunday， Wu Minxia and Shi Tingmao took out the women's synchronised 3m springboard title.
SAN JOSE， Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- Costa Rica had the highest renewable energy production in 2015 among the Central American countries， according to data from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).
ECLAC studied the 2015 energy production numbers for countries that are part of the Central American Integration System (SICA) and established that during this time period， Costa Rica produced 54 percent of its electricity through renewable sources.
Costa Rica produced 31 percent of Central America's clean energy in 2015， while Guatemala and Panama generated 20 and 19 percent， respectively.
At the same time， Honduras produced 11 percent， El Salvador nine percent， Nicaragua six percent， the Dominican Republic generated three percent and Belize produced one percent.
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