由于美国学生在国际数学成绩测验中屡屡表现不佳,落后于其他发达国家,例如最近美国八年级学生在国际数学测验中的成绩落后于新加坡、韩国、中国香港、中国台湾及日本等国家和地区。数学家们警告,近十多年来的数学改革,由于强调学生们自己去发现解决问题的方法,轻视基本训练和记忆,介绍给孩子们的是失真的数学,降低了学生的数学能力。 Because U.S. students often perform poorly in international math test scores, they lag behind other developed countries. For example, the recent eighth grade students in the United States lag behind those in Singapore, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan. . Mathematicians warn that the mathematics reforms in the past decade or so have emphasized students’ ability to find solutions to their problems, disregard basic training and memory, introduce children to distorted mathematics, and reduce students’ mathematical ability.