Sunday, December 8, 2013

Monday Matters #15



Link: http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2013/12/graph-countries-with-higher-math-scores-have-unhappier-kids/282001/
Source: The Atlantic
Author: Derek Thompson

This article talks about the recently published scores of a recent international test that was given to teenagers to test them on different subjects. The article specifically focuses on the Math scores. The United States ranked under the average, while Korea scored the highest. Indonesia scored the second lowest. But the article focuses on the how each countries score relates to the student's happiness in class. While Indonesia scored the second lowest, they reported being the happiest in school out of all the countries. Korea, while scoring the highest on the test, reported having the least happy students out of all of the countries. The author makes a connection between Math and Happiness. He concludes that the better you do on the math portion of the test, the more likely you are of being less happy at school. Having better scores on the math tests takes work, and the author says that after all, they are still kids, and kids do not like working harder than they have to.




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