Comments on: Indian Math Online Helps You Study Like Its Bangalore! http://geekstack.com/blog/indian-math-online-helps-you-study-like-its-bangalore/ Official Blog of GeekStack Thu, 15 Sep 2011 06:16:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Ning http://geekstack.com/blog/indian-math-online-helps-you-study-like-its-bangalore/comment-page-1/#comment-42 Ning Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:59:47 +0000 http://geekstack.com/?p=106#comment-42 I just come across this posting. I share the belief that math education is very critical for our children. It provides basic training for critical thinking, logical thinking and problem solving. Similar to Bob, i grew up in China and was educated there and came to the U.S. for my ph.d. in physics as Berkeley. Seeing so little practice my kids get on math, my husband and I started to create our own worksheets for our kids and we see how much these worksheets helped our kids master the basic math concepts and reduce careless errors. To help other kids, we started a website site www.goldstudent.com. It is an online math training program. Through an assessment test, we develop personalized study program for each student. The students can go at their own pace. Parents receive a notification email for each worksheet the student completes with detailed results. We have many parents and students using the service. If you are looking for supplemental math programs to help your kids, check out www.goldstudent.com. I just come across this posting. I share the belief that math education is very critical for our children. It provides basic training for critical thinking, logical thinking and problem solving. Similar to Bob, i grew up in China and was educated there and came to the U.S. for my ph.d. in physics as Berkeley. Seeing so little practice my kids get on math, my husband and I started to create our own worksheets for our kids and we see how much these worksheets helped our kids master the basic math concepts and reduce careless errors. To help other kids, we started a website site http://www.goldstudent.com. It is an online math training program. Through an assessment test, we develop personalized study program for each student. The students can go at their own pace. Parents receive a notification email for each worksheet the student completes with detailed results. We have many parents and students using the service. If you are looking for supplemental math programs to help your kids, check out http://www.goldstudent.com.

]]> By: Peter http://geekstack.com/blog/indian-math-online-helps-you-study-like-its-bangalore/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Peter Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:52:57 +0000 http://geekstack.com/?p=106#comment-12 Anoop, I don't have a problem with it being Indian. I'm impressed with India's culture of education, particularly in math, science, and engineering. In the article it says "children of Indian and Chinese parents use the site consistently, but American children often lose interest after a couple months". I think that explicitly branding it as "Indian" makes it an easier sell for South Asian and East Asian families in America, it is distracting to people who don't understand how Indian education works. Anoop, I don’t have a problem with it being Indian. I’m impressed with India’s culture of education, particularly in math, science, and engineering.

In the article it says “children of Indian and Chinese parents use the site consistently, but American children often lose interest after a couple months”. I think that explicitly branding it as “Indian” makes it an easier sell for South Asian and East Asian families in America, it is distracting to people who don’t understand how Indian education works.

]]> By: Anoop http://geekstack.com/blog/indian-math-online-helps-you-study-like-its-bangalore/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Anoop Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:56:13 +0000 http://geekstack.com/?p=106#comment-10 Why is there such a resistance to the "Indian" in the title. Most classical math was invented there so the epithet is justified. Walk like an Egyptian.....Math like an Indian........works, doesnt it! Why is there such a resistance to the “Indian” in the title.

Most classical math was invented there so the epithet is justified.

Walk like an Egyptian…..Math like an Indian……..works, doesnt it!

]]> By: sneezee http://geekstack.com/blog/indian-math-online-helps-you-study-like-its-bangalore/comment-page-1/#comment-8 sneezee Sat, 08 Nov 2008 13:19:47 +0000 http://geekstack.com/?p=106#comment-8 Great ideas - good luck to you! Please make the text size on this page larger. It's difficult for me to read and I couldn't increase its size in my IE ver 7.0.5 browser. Thanks, Sneezee Great ideas – good luck to you!
Please make the text size on this page larger. It’s difficult for me to read and I couldn’t increase its size in my IE ver 7.0.5 browser.

Thanks,
Sneezee

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