Rice paddies and math tests

Jenna Longobardi

Culture and language effects your success in math:

• The growth of rice paddies in china

• Languages

• Discipline

Chinas growth of rice paddies

• “Rice cultivated China for thousands of years.”

• 16,603 hectares(41,029 acres) of rice terraces

• If you planted different types of rice at the same time it would reduce there chance of losing harvest

• “A farmer might plant a dozen or more different varieties at one time adjusting the mix from season to season in order to manage the risk of a crop failure”

Rice farmers

• worked 3,000 hours per year

• there are about 6 steps to growing rice

• Very skill oriented

4 8 5 3 9 7 6

Math tests:

• “If you're English you have a 50% chance of remembering those numbers”

• “If you're Asian you are certain to get it every time”

Language:

English: (Number System) “irregular” Asian: (Number System) “logical”

ten, eleven, twelve Ten, ten one, ten two, etc.

Pronunciation: 4 is four and 7 is seven Pronunciation: 4 is si and 7 is qi ( takes them a third of a second to say)

Add 37 +22, they add 2 plus 7 is 9 and 30 plus 20 is 50 so its 59, they have to transform the words into number to solve the problem

Add three-tens-seven and two tens two, and they know in there head its 5 tens nine because the necessary equation is already there

Dealing with success

• If you speak English you start learning math in about 3rd or 4rth grade

• If you're Asian in 3rd and 4rth grade you are already calculating things in your head and can hold more numbers in there head

Dealing with success

• To conclude the chapter the skill it took for Asians to farm/grow rice passed down to there families which gives them the advantage of having the ability to process things differently and faster