Word: maths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...complex way so that any one of them would on average beat one of the others. He was one of three people I ever showed them to who figured this out and saw the way to win was to make me choose first which one I'd roll." (For math buffs: the dice were nontransitive. One of the others who figured it out was the logician Saul Kripke...
...stuck close to the family, and he focused on school and achievement. Says Phillip, now a dentist: "He knew what it was he had to do." Sonia recalls, "If he got even one question wrong, he'd be very upset with himself." It was A's in everything, math, science--and English. Six months after starting school, David settled into the language, thanks to an English-as-a-second-language program and the miracle of TV. "We watched The Three Stooges," Phillip says. "We picked up a few phrases here and there and some mannerisms." When their parents' third...
...child, Ho had his math tables drilled into him in Mandarin, and to this day he does his calculations in Chinese. "But," he says, "I wouldn't even have the vocabulary to give a scientific talk in Chinese." He plays down the importance of being Chinese to his success--but that is a very Chinese thing to do. Instead, he cites immigrant drive: "People get to this new world, and they want to carve out their place in it. The result is dedication and a higher level of work ethic." He adds, "You always retain a bit of an underdog...
...personal profile, we turned to senior editor Howard Chua-Eoan, who has much in common with Ho. Both are immigrants (Chua-Eoan from the Philippines, Ho from Taiwan) and eldest sons. They share two Chinese dialects (Fujian and Mandarin), and both still do math in their head in Chinese...
...like computers, don't use them and are not getting the skills they need is not true at our house with its three girls! I like to go on the Internet with my mom. I'd rather have software I can learn from, like Amazon Trail, Treasure Math Storm and all the Carmen Sandiegos. Unless I want to be a fashion designer, which I don't, Barbie Fashion Designer won't help me. MARCY CAMERON, age 11 Palisade, Colorado Via E-mail