AEAS专区-数学逻辑,英语学习-双语阅读
AEAS数学是有多简单！维州州长派人来国内取经啦
澳洲AEAS考试的数学对于国内的学生来说是小菜一碟，有一个原因就是国内数学平均水平都很高，但是目前维州的州长与内阁部秘书Chris Eccles，带领团前往中国江苏回见当地的早教和教育专家，与他们一起讨论语言教育以及如何提高澳洲学生的STEM成绩。原因就是他们学生的数学太弱了，AEAS考生数学成绩非常不理想。
Chris Eccles
由于澳洲学生的算术和STEM水平持续落后，所以导致了澳洲的教育者和政策制定者颇为困扰，近日他们就前往我们中国的某些学校来取经，学习如何提高学生的算术和科学成绩的有效方法。
这次维州政府取经的目标就是希望让9年级的学生能够达到最高数学水平的人数增长到25%，另外达到最高科学成绩的人数能够增长33%。
江苏交换生 Hao (Coco) Dong在Balywn High School.
据报道，澳洲快速发展的职业里面有四分之三都是需要拥有很强的STEM水平，而澳洲的学生在科学和数学这两个能力上却普遍都表现的较差。
维州教育部已经有多名要员包括教育与培训部秘书GillCallister，将一起访问我国一家双语幼儿园。该幼儿园将会被安排来接待维州的交换老师，而其他的维州老师也将会在接下来一年里有机会来我国学习我们中国高中和高校教授数学、科学的方法。
我们了解到中国是被认为是世界上拥有教授STEM课程最有效方法的国家之一，尤其是在北京、上海、还有江苏和广东四大地区。我们根据2015年的国际学生AEAS数学测评报告发现，中国至少有超过四分之一的学生已经达到了最高的国际数学成绩标准。
相比较而言，中国小留学生的数学和运算水平也已经远远的超过了那些澳洲的当地学生，AEAS数学考试基本学生的成绩都是在6分以上的，他们也不需要经过过多的训练和强化，一些简单的数学运算和数学词汇就而已让学生在考场轻松应对。不由得感叹大中华的数学智慧的确不是盖的!
Australia looks to China for maths, science lessons
Frustrated by stagnating maths and STEM standards, Australian education and policy experts are travelling to China for lessons on how to boost maths and science in local classrooms.
Victoria’s top public servant, Department of Premier and Cabinet secretary Chris Eccles, has lead a delegation to Jiangsu to meet with early learning and teaching experts to discuss language, education, and how to improve science, technology, engineering and maths skills (STEM) locally.
Victoria is targeting a 25 per cent increase in the number of Year 9 students reaching the highest level of achievement in maths, and a 33 per cent increase in students reaching the highest levels of science.
Three-quarters of the fastest growing occupations are now reliant on STEM skills, but students round the country are opting out of science and maths subjects in greater numbers.
“The challenges and opportunities facing Victoria are not unique to our jurisdiction,” Mr Eccles said. “Our partnership with Jiangsu has economic benefits but it’s much more than that. Victorians will benefit from the insights gained about education, health, social development, environmental protection and culture.”
Top brass from the state’s Education Department, including DET secretary Gill Callister will visit Nanjing No 1 Kindergarten, which is a bilingual Chinese-English school for preschoolers.
The kindergarten will host Victorian teachers on exchange, while other Victorian teachers will visit Jiangsu over the coming year to learn Chinese approaches to maths and science, both for high schools and tertiary training.
China is regarded as having one of the most effective approaches to STEM education in the world, particularly across the four-city region of Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu and Guangdong, where more than one in four students reach the top performance band for maths, according to the 2015 Program for International Student Assessment.
Chinese students recorded an average PISA score of 531 in the 2015 study, compared with an OECD average of 490. Australia’s average mathematics score of 494 has fallen eight points in the past three years, as has its mean science score, which has dropped six points in three years to 510. This is above the OECD average of 493, but below China’s score of 518.
Australian Council of Education Research director of assessment and psychometric research Michael Timms said it was important Australian students stuck with STEM subjects.
“When you look at those figures alongside participation rates of kids — when they get to make choices about continuing on in STEM subjects — there’s trend towards those numbers dropping as well. I think there is a cause for concern,” Dr Timms said.
He said there was more research showing the benefit of starting maths and science young. “Science achievement gaps between high-performing and low-performing students start early and persist over time … early intervention is a good thing, because once a student enters school education and they’re a bit behind, it seems they will always remain behind,” Dr Timms said.
Fewer students are enrolling in STEM subjects in high school and more teachers admit to feeling out of depth in STEM subjects.
A 2015 STEM research project by PwC found Year 12 participation in STEM subjects falling across the country: in 1992-2012, there was an 11 per cent fall in the participation rate for intermediate maths, and drops of 10 per cent in biology, 5 per cent in chemistry and 7 per cent in physics.
