According to ECNU Press, One Lesson One Exercise, a brand-name learning aid that has been helping Shanghai students study for 22 years, will be published in Britain under the name,“One Lesson One Exercise of Shanghai Maths”, this year.
One Lesson One Exercise is a brand-name learning aid in Shanghai.
Wang Yan, President of ECNU Press, said that the Press had signed an agreement with Britain’s Harper Collins Publishers this January to publish a British edition of One Lesson One Exercise’s maths section. This section, which consists of 11 books, is currently under compilation and will be published in Britain this summer. Expert teams familiar with both Chinese textbooks and British educational conditions are compiling the maths section on the basis of the pre-existing domestic edition. According to Ni Ming, Head of the Learning Aid Branch of ECNU Press, differences between China’s and Britain’s educational systems and curriculum standards require that the British edition of One Lesson One Exercise delete certain contents and change some terms and background information. The level of difficulty, however, will not be reduced.
“As the British side pays much attention to Shanghai’s educational experience in basic education, especially maths, we have considered the name of the British edition should contain ‘Shanghai’ and ‘Maths’”, says Ms. Wang Yan.
According to the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA2012) issued by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), in 2013, students from Shanghai ranked first in overall scores among those from 65 countries and regions. Shanghai students’ average score in maths was 613, far higher than the British average score of 494.
That aroused much interest in China’s elementary education system from western countries. In February 2014, the British Secretary of State for Education led a group of educators to visit some schools in Shanghai. After that, the British Department for Education initiated a program of cooperation with Shanghai, which included exchanging maths teachers from primary schools and sharing teaching experience.
One Lesson One Exercise is a brand-name learning aid in Shanghai, and many of its compilers are well-known teachers and researchers in Shanghai.
Written by: Zhao Shuyu
