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Friday, October 5, 1973
MINTRICATED MATHEMATICS SYLLABUS FOR PRIMARY SCHOOLS
The Education Department has produced a second edition in English
and Chinese of the Suggested Mathematics Syllabus for Primary Schools.
This syllabus is now fully metricated, so that children will
start to learn and think in metric units," a spokesman for the department
said today.
Basically the Systeme Internationale, which is universally used
in scientific work, has been adopted.
"However, some other metric terms, and some traditional Chinese
and Imperial measures are retained where classroom convenience and common
usage suggest their continued usefulness.
"The syllabus will form the basis of the mathematics papers of the
Secondary Schools Entrance Examination from 1975," the spokesman said.
Comments on the syllabus from teachers and others are welcome and
should be made to the Mathematics Inspectors of the Department's Advisory
Inspectorate.
Copies of the syllabus will be issued to primary schools shortly.
The syllabus at $1.50 each is available from the Government Publications
Centre, Star Ferry Concourse, Hong Kong.
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