Re: Mathematics in Persian, feedback needed

Thanks for the responses. Let me comment on each here: > It is a normal form of an equation in Iran. In Afghanistan, also a > Persian speaking country, mathematical notations are expressed the > same way as in English. Even in primary school? When kids learn to write "1+2+3" do they start straigh

Re: Mathematics in Persian, feedback needed

Hi, On سه‌شنبه, 2005-10-18 at 11:42 +0100, Max Froumentin wrote: > Thanks for the responses. Let me comment on each here: > > > It is a normal form of an equation in Iran. In Afghanistan, also a > > Persian speaking country, mathematical notations are expressed the > > same way as in English. >

Re: Mathematics in Persian, feedback needed

About "tg" vs "tan": for a while, "tg", "cotg", and "cosec" were used. Then the academic community switched to "tan", "cot", and "csc" but the high school trigonometry textbooks remained with "tg" and family. After a while, the high school textbooks also switched. Now the common form used in all le

Re: Mathematics in Persian, feedback needed

On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 18:33 +0330, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: > About "tg" vs "tan": for a while, "tg", "cotg", and "cosec" were used. > Then the academic community switched to "tan", "cot", and "csc" but the > high school trigonometry textbooks remained with "tg" and family. After > a while, the hig

Re: Mathematics in Persian, feedback needed

Hi, Just to add some info about the French system : Among the common differences you see in primary school mathematics are the long division notation. e.g. In English it's written as shown in . In french it's: 14523 | 34 92

Re: Mathematics in Persian, feedback needed

To answer the parts that other people didn't answer: On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Max Froumentin wrote: > Thanks for the responses. Let me comment on each here: > > > It is a normal form of an equation in Iran. In Afghanistan, also a > > Persian speaking country, mathematical notations are expressed the

Re: Mathematics in Persian, feedback needed

"Sina Ahmadian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, surprisingly the long division notation in the French is really > "bizarre"! yes :-) But as long as it's used anywhere in the world, then MathML ought to support it. There are more schoolkids learning mathematics using a possibly bizzarre notati