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Padula, Janice – Australian Senior Mathematics Journal, 2005
The motivation of students is of great import to mathematics teachers. Such an abstract powerful language needs to be valued or students will not wish to study it. This article argues that mathematics may be better appreciated through the beauty of the language in which problems are written, respect for the cultures of others and through relevance…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Student Motivation, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Instruction
Cheng, Chin-Chuan – 1986
A study of the relationships between Chinese dialects based on a quantitative measure of dialect affinity is summarized. First, tone values in all the dialect localities available in the early 1970s were used to calculate the dialectal differences in terms of tone height with respect to the "yin and yang" split. In the late 1970s, calculations of…
Descriptors: Chinese, Classification, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics