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- From: guglielmetti@elia.epfl.ch (Philippe Guglielmetti)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
- Subject: Re: U.S.A. loosing the edge in math? (Math Reflex Test)
- Message-ID: <4342@sicsun.epfl.ch>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 14:56:33 GMT
- References: <1992Nov19.153021.26726@news.cs.indiana.edu>
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- X-XXMessage-ID: <A732BC6D26017B20@iamace9.epfl.ch>
- X-XXDate: Fri, 20 Nov 92 16:01:49 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.153021.26726@news.cs.indiana.edu> Stefan Berg,
- sgberg@peach.ucs.indiana.edu writes:
- >Addition, 94.409% U.S.A
- >Algebra, 89.528% Germany
- >Division, 86.761% Australia
- >Fractions, 88.481% Germany
- >Multiplication, 96.109% Australia
- >Subtraction, 101.208% Norway
-
- well this is not really the place to talk about that, but I think
- americans should be happy to be the best at least in one domain :
- additions...
- Just a question : is this test made on pre-selected kids or on a very
- large basis of guinea-pigs as the 3 decimals in the percentage may
- suggest ?
-
- Ph. Guglielmetti
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