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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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