Fifth-graders in China's Shunqing district were recently asked to answer this question: "If a ship had 26 sheep and 10 goats on board, how old is the ship's captain?" The apparently unsolvable question sparked a debate over the merits of the Chinese education system and the value it places on the memorization of information over […]
Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2018/01/31/this-chinese-math-problem-has-no-answer-actually-it-has-a-lot-of-them/
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