British students may soon study mathematics with Chinese textbooks after a “historic” deal between HarperCollins and a Shanghai publishing house in which books will be translated for use in UK schools.
哈珀柯林斯集团与一所上海出版社的历史性合作，将中国课本翻译成英语，英国学生不久后可能就要使用中国课本学习数学了。
China’s wealthy cities including Shanghai and Beijing produce some of the world’s top-performing maths pupils while British students rank far behind their counterparts in Asia.
中国繁荣的大城市，包括上海，北京教育出了拥有世界顶级数学能力的学生，而英国学生与之相比远远落后。

HarperCollins’s education division signed an agreement to release a series of 36 maths books at the London Book Fair the state-run China Daily reported with Colin Hughes managing director of Collins Learning calling it “historic”.
哈珀柯林斯集团的教育部签署了一项协议，决定在伦敦书展推出一系列36套的数学课本，国营的中国日报报道称科林斯学习的总经理科林·休斯称其为“历史性的”。
“To my knowledge this has never happened in history before – that textbooks created for students in China will be translated exactly as they have been developed and sold for use in British schools” the China Daily quoted Hughes as saying.
“据我所知在之前还未曾有过中国教科书完完全全的翻译成英文并卖给英国学校使用的”中国日报援引休斯的话。

以下是腐国网友留言：

steviematt ：
Will we be getting maths teachers to hit and prod the slow students in front of the whole class at the white board while ordering them to quickly figure out the answers too?
我们的数学老师也要命令学生速算，不行的话，就当着整个班级的面在黑板前虐待差生了？

frenegonde ：
I would assume that the teachers using text books use the ones that show current methods. Editors produce new text books all the time to keep up with changes in methods and a lot of work must go into producing those books. However your colleague's problem raises important questions; not about the use of text books but about the use of computer based job assessments! Even if your colleague had never seen a text book in her life there is no guarantee that her teacher knew the latest methods!
我认为教师使用的课本需要展现当前的学习方法，编者推出的新课本一直在学习方法上与时俱进，在这上进行了很大的努力。然而你同事的困惑引出了很重要的问题，不是关于课本使用问题而是关于评估工作的计算机使用问题。即使你同事从未看过任何一本课本，他老师也不一定就知道最新的学习方法。

Alan French ：
Judging by the Maths ignorance shown by Brexiteers In this country the answer is yes.
由脱欧者所表现出来对数学的无知来判断，答案是“是”。

UnashamedPedant ：
Following that logic the Germans would have to be far behind us because for them the number 327495 is "three hundred seven and twenty thousand four hundred five and ninety". It occasionally still causes me to stumble mentally even after deades of living here but not them: even fairly uneducated Germans seem to cope with it -- just as well as we in fact cope with "fifteen" and so on. (Don't you?) And what about the French with their "four twenties eleven" for 91? I think we have to look elsewhere for our problems.
照这个逻辑，德国人会比我们差得远，因为他们把327495念成“三百七和二十千四百五和九十”。尽管已经在这里过了几十年，有时候仍然会使我内心迷惑，但是他们不会：即使是没有经过什么教育的德国人都能很好理解——就像我们很容易理解“fifteen”等一样。（难道你不是么？）法国人代表91的“四个二十十一”呢？我认为我们应该找找其他原因。

SomersetDan ：
You know that 10000 hour rule?
When you are able to hit that by age 10 then yes you will be a master.
你知道10000小时规则么？如果在10岁前你就能达到1万个小时的练习时间，那么你将成为大师。

Mike Travis ：
Yeah turned out pretty well with the educated youth torturing their own Professors during the Cultural Revolution.
是啊，很不错，受过教育的人（zq？）在文hdgm的时候折磨过他们的教授。

EarlyVictoria ：
Knowing how to teach maths is a very different thing from knowing how to do maths. If all teachers follow the "you get or you don't" principle none of us would know any maths at all.
知道如何教数学和知道如何做数学是非常不同的事。假如所有老师遵循“要么听懂要么不懂”的原则，那么我们根本学不会数学。

BertieBucket ：
They are not "thick" their brains are just wired to excell in other areas.
他们不是“二”，只是他们的大脑在其他领域比较优秀

ldnsouth ：
It's not confidence. It's respect. There's no respect for academic study in this country and the more abstract and difficult the subject the less the respect.
这不是自信，这是尊重。这个国家对学术研究没有尊重，越抽象越难的科目获得的尊重越少。

Optymystic ：
the textbook was a life saver. Specially for reading Your school had a textbook on reading?
教科书可以帮大忙。特别对阅读来说，你的学校有阅读教材么？