Maths in Chinese.
Science in English.

But that isn't a curriculum is it?

Standard 1 arithmetic. Not trigonometry and calculus.

Many years back, there was this guy called Mokhdar who appeared on one of the early morning talk shows on TV. He made the observation that at primary school level, chinese school students are better in maths than kids from malay and tamil schools. Why is this?

There is some science behind it involving how the human brain works. But jumping straight to the conclusion, it's because in chinese, each number from 0 to 9 gets a monosylabic name. In malay, the names are two or three syllables long.

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Added on December 8, 2011, 10:34 amBut sheep makes good workers. This is why the UK is losing out to China. If you train people to think for themselves, you get problems like the occupy movement. Strikes when owners and managers grabs most of the profits and pay workers a pittance. People voting out their government. People questioning government leaders at every turn, instead of simply doing what are asked of them.

OK. There's plenty of sarcasm there.

This post has been edited by dkk: Dec 8 2011, 10:34 AM

tamil and chinese? not tamil and mandarin?