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This is BBC World News Today. Diplomatic manoeuvres on the crisis | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
in Ukraine are speeding up. As we go on air, President Obama is due to | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
meet the interim Ukrainian prime minister at the White House. Arseniy | :00:14. | :00:20. | |
Yatsenyuk was welcomed by the US Secretary of State John Kerry, who | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
earlier urged Russia to respect the people of Ukraine in its approach to | :00:24. | :00:31. | |
the Crimean region. We will do what we have to do, if Russia cannot find | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
a way to make the right choices. Two people die and many more are | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
injured after an explosion caused by a gas leak causes two buildings to | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
collapse in New York City. Also coming up. The search for Flight | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
MH370 goes on and widens, five days after it disappeared. Its last radio | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
message: OK. Roger that. Boosting British mathematics the | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
Chinese way. We look at a move to bring teachers from Shanghai into | :00:58. | :01:13. | |
the UK's classrooms. Hello. | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
The Ukrainian interim prime minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, has | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
arrived in Washington for talks with President Obama, and vice president | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
Joe Biden. He was welcomed by US Secretary of State, John Kerry. The | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
meeting comes just a few days before the referendum on the independence | :01:32. | :01:38. | |
of Crimea, scheduled for Sunday. Earlier, Mr Kerry announced he's | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
travelling to London, to meet his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
on Friday in a last-minute bid to avert a new crisis in Ukraine. | :01:45. | :01:51. | |
We will do what we have to do, if Russia cannot find the way to make | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
the right choices. Our job is to try to present them with a series of | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
options that are appropriate in order to try to respect the people | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
of Ukraine, international law, and the interests of all concerned. John | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
Carey saying they will do what they have to do. Our correspondent is | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
monitoring events. This is a high-profile meeting for the interim | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
Ukrainian Prime Minister. That is right. A real show of support and | :02:27. | :02:33. | |
solidarity from the White House and the meeting is going on right now. | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
Just half an hour, it is due to wrap up in 15 minutes and we have been | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
told the president will give a short statement outlining what was | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
discussed. Broadly, the White House said the meeting is about finding a | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
peaceful resolution to the ongoing military intervention and to | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
preserve the territorial integrity of Ukraine. Realistically, what can | :02:57. | :03:06. | |
the White House do? It is interesting because options are | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
limited. We have spoken about before that military options have been | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
ruled out. I was at the White House briefing. The press secretary talked | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
about some of the options the president has. We know that these | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
bands have been put in place the prominent Russians that the White | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
House believes might be undermining the Ukraine sovereignty -- visa | :03:30. | :03:37. | |
bans. He signed an order that would freeze the assets of Russians who | :03:38. | :03:45. | |
might be believed to be involved in undermining Ukraine sovereignty. | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
When he was asked who was on the list, the press secretary said they | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
were working on it. Some people say the longer that is left, the more | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
time these Russians who might be targeted with have to move assets | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
somewhere else. The White House said it has options and if Russia does | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
not escalate, it could broaden the scope of what it does. We will | :04:05. | :04:13. | |
continue to monitor that. The meeting is expected to finish in 15 | :04:14. | :04:20. | |
minutes. Across the Crimean peninsula there are military bases | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
that remain under the control of Ukrainian forces, in spite of | :04:24. | :04:25. | |
relentless provocation from Russian soldiers and the civil defence units | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
that support them. But what happens if Crimea does vote to become part | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
of Russia on Sunday? What then for the soldiers who stand in the way of | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
the new pro-Russian authority? There is a danger the tense stand-offs may | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
escalate into open conflict. Our world affairs correspondent | :04:44. | :04:45. | |
Christian Fraser has been investigating. | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
A sprawling ammunition dump, chiselled into the rock of the | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
Inkerman Valley. Of all the tense stand-off 's we have witnessed, this | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
might prove the most dangerous. Marshalling the entrance, volunteers | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
of the civil defence force who tried to stop us filming. More than once, | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
the Russians have tried to seize control. Our secret recording shows | :05:12. | :05:20. | |
the Ukrainian commander is under mounting pressure. | :05:21. | :05:29. | |
Ten days ago, another Ukrainian commander exercised his frustration, | :05:30. | :05:39. | |
marching his men to the gates of the Sebastopol and bass. The closest we | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
have come to conflict. Since then the aircraft on the runway have been | :05:46. | :05:52. | |
disabled. The foxholes they dig our surely a gesture of defiance rather | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
than a meaningful deterrent. The Russians call every day, says the | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
kernel. They have given up trying to turn me. What happens after the | :06:04. | :06:11. | |
referendum and anticipated secession of Crimea worries every Ukrainian | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
soldier. After that service men would be | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
marooned outside the borders of their country. What we do not know | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
is what the conflicting orders of Kiev are likely to be. The new head | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
of the national-security counselling Kiev refuses to be drawn. We will | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
let you know what will happen after the 16th, he says, I can tell you | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
the spirits of the soldiers remain high. | :06:40. | :06:49. | |
Maybe, but they stand in the face of overwhelming support here from | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
Russia and today the Kremlin standard-bearers arrived in the | :06:53. | :07:00. | |
shape of these men. Welcome home to Russia, he said. The result of the | :07:01. | :07:08. | |
referendum hardly in doubt. And now the United States. An | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
explosion which destroyed two five-storey buildings in New York | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
was caused by a gas leak, according to the city's Mayor. Two women were | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
killed and a number of people are still unaccounted for, following the | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
blast in East Harlem. A search operation is now under way. Nick | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
Bryant is live at the scene. It seems calm now, but it was not | :07:32. | :07:38. | |
earlier today. It was a chaotic scene when I | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
arrived shortly after the explosions. 9:31am was the first | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
call to the emergency services. They were on the scene quickly. They | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
found a rising plume of smoke, a site that evokes fears for the | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
people of Manhattan. On this occasion, it was a gas explosion | :07:59. | :08:07. | |
that caused it. Before the explosion a local utility company had been | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
contacted by people locally who smelt gas. Indeed a team from Con | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
Edison were on their way into the buildings when the explosion | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
happened. The mayor of New York was very much | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
reiterating that there is no link to terrorism, or, crying. | :08:26. | :08:34. | |
The FBI -- or to crime. The FBI ruled out any link with terror or | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
crime early on. The suspicion strongly in the early hours was that | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
it was a gas explosion, partly because of local people who said | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
they smelt a stronger odour of gas. It happened after many of those | :08:49. | :08:55. | |
people living in those buildings had gone to work. It avoided the peak of | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
the rush-hour, which is significant. The buildings are | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
opposite a raised railway line. There were a couple of trade is | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
pretty close with people posting photographs showing the early | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
minutes of the explosion. Fortunately, they were not passing | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
by when it went off. More than a dozen people are not accounted for. | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
The hope is they are at work and cannot be contacted. The worry is | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
that some might be in the rubble. It has been difficult to search because | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
it was difficult to put out the intense blaze. | :09:33. | :09:39. | |
27,000 nautical square miles of sea, 39 aircraft and 42 ships to cover | :09:40. | :09:49. | |
it. That's the scale of the search for Malaysia flight MH370 as we | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
approach five days since its disappearance. 239 people were on | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
board the plane. Their families still have virtually no clues as to | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
its whereabouts. The search itself, now supported by 12 countries, is | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
focused on two areas - the South China Sea and the Malacca Straits. | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
This is the route the plane is known to have taken before contact was | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
broken according to civil aviation authorities. But at a press | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
briefing, Malaysia revealed that military radar had tracked an | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
unidentified object, which could have been the missing aircraft, into | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
the Strait of Malacca on the opposite side of the country. | :10:23. | :10:34. | |
Is it really possible for so many planes and ships to find no trace of | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
a 200 tonne airliner after five days of searching? It is if they are | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
looking in the wrong place. They assumed it came down in the South | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
China Sea, close to its last contact. Now the Malaysia and | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
authorities think it might be hundreds of miles west of its flight | :10:55. | :11:01. | |
path. At the press briefings, officials struggled to explain why | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
they seem to know so little. When we look at the recording, it proves | :11:06. | :11:13. | |
that there is a possibility that this aircraft made a turn back. But | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
we are not sure if it is the same aircraft. There were on -- there was | :11:18. | :11:27. | |
an uproar of questions. It was almost an hour into its journey when | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
edge traffic control bid the pilot farewell. His last words were, all | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
right, Roger that, suggesting nothing was wrong. But Malaysia and | :11:38. | :11:44. | |
military radar records show and on identified object flying an hour | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
later over the Andaman Sea. That is all they have two go on. Two of | :11:49. | :11:56. | |
those on Ward were Rodney and Mary Burroughs. His parents were about to | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
visit them in China to celebrate Mary's birthday. There is no news. | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
It has just disappeared off the face of the year. If we could just find | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
wreckage or something, it would be a help, probably. What we have learned | :12:12. | :12:18. | |
almost five days after the flight vanished must be of concern to | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
millions of passengers passing through airports in the region, that | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
the authorities know almost nothing about what happened to the aircraft | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
and, in their search for it, they are just guessing. We have more on | :12:32. | :12:40. | |
the search on the website. Now some of the day's other news. Palestinian | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
militants in the Gaza Strip have fired rockets at southern Israel | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
according to Israeli officials. They say eight rockets hit suburban areas | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
and others were intercepted by the missile defence system. It is the | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
heaviest barrage since the November 2012 conflict in Gaza ended. Turkish | :13:01. | :13:07. | |
police have fired water cannon and tear gas in Istanbul and Ankara | :13:08. | :13:09. | |
during protests triggered by the funeral of a teenage boy. Berkin | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
Elvan, 15, spent nine months in a coma after being hit by a tear gas | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
canister as he went to buy bread in June last year. Tens of thousands of | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
mourners chanted anti-government slogans as his coffin was carried | :13:23. | :13:29. | |
through the streets of Istanbul. Former Formula 1 driver Michael | :13:30. | :13:32. | |
Schumacher is said to be showing small, encouraging signs following | :13:33. | :13:35. | |
his skiing accident. He's been in a medically induced coma since | :13:36. | :13:37. | |
sustaining head injuries in the French Alps two months ago. His | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
family say he still faces a long fight to recovery. But they remain | :13:42. | :13:51. | |
confident he will pull through. There've been dramatic scenes at the | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
Oscar Pistorius murder trial. A forensics expert has been | :13:56. | :13:57. | |
re-enacting how the Olympian broke down the toilet door with a cricket | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
bat after he'd shot his girlfriend. The athlete denies murdering Reeva | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
Steenkamp and says he fired through the door thinking she was an | :14:05. | :14:06. | |
intruder. From Pretoria, Andrew Harding reports. | :14:07. | :14:15. | |
The crime scene came to court today in the form of a door, the one that | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
Oscar Pistorius shot through, and the white walls behind it | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
representing the toilet where Reeva Steenkamp was killed. A forensics | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
expert reveals the cricket bat Oscar Pistorius used to smash the door | :14:30. | :14:39. | |
down. At issue today were the marks left by the cricket bat. There were | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
at least two on the door, one here, one and a half metres above the | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
floor with Oscar Pistorius apparently standing to one side. | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
Another hit lower down. The experts said it suggested the athlete was on | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
his stumps, and therefore lying when he claimed he was wearing his | :14:59. | :15:05. | |
respected legs. The defence said it was just guesswork and asked the | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
expert to act it out again. Are you losing your balance? He conceded it | :15:11. | :15:18. | |
might be hard to balance on stumps and swing the cricket bat. The | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
defence team said they did their own tests that proved the athlete was | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
telling the truth about standing on his prostatic legs. The test showed | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
he had not just hit the door but kicked it, leaving traces of his | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
sock trapped in the wood. But the police investigating Reeva | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
Steenkamp's death, it has not been a great day. Their expert admitted the | :15:43. | :15:49. | |
door had later been removed from the crime scene, trampled on and a chunk | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
had gone missing. Oscar Pistorius seem relaxed, smiling when a witness | :15:55. | :16:03. | |
appeared to stumble. It has been a dramatic and you might say | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
theatrical day. The prosecution is still struggling to prove that Oscar | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
Pistorius' version of what happened is a lie. | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
For the first time ever ground-breaking 3D printing has been | :16:17. | :16:19. | |
used to reconstruct a person's face, which had been crushed in a serious | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
motorbike accident. Every stage of the operation was planned and | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
executed using 3D printed parts. Our Wales Correspondent, Howel Griffith | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
was given exclusive access to see the procedure carried out at | :16:33. | :16:41. | |
Swansea's Morriston Hospital. Come and have a seat, Stephen. Nice | :16:42. | :16:48. | |
to see you. His body filled with plates and screws, Stephen has | :16:49. | :16:51. | |
learned to hide his injuries since his accident 18 months ago. Despite | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
wearing a crash helmet, he remembers little of the impact which left him | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
on a life-support machine, and left his skull crushed out of shape. I | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
shouldn't really be wearing glasses, I wear them to disguise my cheek and | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
my eye, because with them off, obviously, you can see my cheek is | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
out there. My eyelid is sunk, my nose is still bent. Surgeons are | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
going to rebuild Stephen's face, as instead of using traditional | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
techniques, the parts they need for the operation have been printed. | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
Using scans of Stephen's skull, the team first changed its shape on a | :17:31. | :17:37. | |
computer, and then layer by layer, printed the models, plates and | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
implants for use in surgery. It means every part is designed to fit | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
precisely, removing any guesswork from the surgery. The team are now | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
working with custom printed cutting guides designed to perfectly fit | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
Stephen's face. They will help restore a natural symmetry. Working | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
on historic injuries makes that a challenge, but the printed parts are | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
making a difference. Without the guide, it is up to our free hand | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
decision-making on the operating table, which could be good, could be | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
not good. With this, if it fits together OK, means it is exactly | :18:16. | :18:22. | |
perfect. Two weeks later, time to see the results. The difference | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
between the two sides is now one millimetre... There is still some | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
swelling, but the scan shows symmetry has been restored. For | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
Stephen, it feels transporting. I am glad they have developed that | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
technology, that they are able to do something like that. It is like | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
changing and has changed my life. Stephen's place in history has | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
already been marked by this exhibit in the Science Museum. The future of | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
3-D printing could see words -- working organs printed within the | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
next decade. For Stephen, the technology has already delivered a | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
huge step forward in his recovery. A group of Maths teachers from | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
Shanghai are coming to England to help improve standards. It's part of | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
an exchange that give teachers here the chance to improve their methods. | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
Last year, the UK came 26th for Maths in an international league | :19:17. | :19:27. | |
table. Graham Satchell reports. 14 squares, that gave me 196. In | :19:28. | :19:34. | |
this primary School, years six are learning about the areas of | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
triangles and having a visit from England's Education Minister. In | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
international league tables, the UK has fallen behind in Maths, | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
particularly to countries in the Far East. From next autumn, 60 Maths | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
teachers from China will be in English schools, teaching and | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
sharing their expertise. Children in Shanghai by the age of 15 or three | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
years ahead of our children. We want to improve our teaching even | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
further, to learn from the best in the world, who embed really high | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
quality practice in our school. She so for herself specialist Maths | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
teachers at work. Critics say that the Chinese hothouse their | :20:16. | :20:17. | |
children, putting pressure on them to succeed. Teaching unions have | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
questioned the way international league table data is gathered and | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
whether Chinese teachers are best for children here. There are things | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
that might lead to children feeling unhappy, and that is something we | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
would not want to bring in. But certainly, I think what is called | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
for is a bit of humanity, -- humility, that we can learn from | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
other countries. The government says it is determined to improve the | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
standard of Maths. Going Chinese might be part of the answer. | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
With me is Jerry Glazier who's on the National Executive of the | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
National Union Of Teachers in the UK. Also here is Andreas Schleicher. | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
He's Deputy Director for Education and Skills with the OECD - the | :21:02. | :21:03. | |
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Thank | :21:04. | :21:11. | |
you for coming in. I want to ask you, to begin with, Andreas | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
Schleicher, why is China so good when it comes to Maths? They have | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
become really good at teaching mathematics, they are focused on | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
deep conceptual understanding, they do not spend too much on simpler | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
processes and procedures. They share their practice throughout the | :21:32. | :21:33. | |
system. Every teacher does quite well on it. Jerry Glazier, is that | :21:34. | :21:40. | |
where we are going wrong, that we don't share our information? I don't | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
believe that is the case. It is important we have a rigorous | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
mathematics curriculum, teachers were properly trained. But there is | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
not any significant evidence that mathematics teaching in this country | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
is in the doldrums. The 2012 report was very, the entry about Maths | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
development and Maths in our schools. Andreas Schleicher, the | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
figures. Necessarily show that, do they? There is a performance gap. | :22:08. | :22:16. | |
There is a lot the world can learn. We can do this in any other field as | :22:17. | :22:22. | |
well, medicine or science. Sharing expertise, experience, it is a great | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
way of investing in the professionalisation of the | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
workforce, to have these exchanges. Jerry Glazier, would you welcome | :22:31. | :22:37. | |
them? There is concern about overlaying a template from one | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
culture to another. There is concern about the education culture in some | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
of the Asian countries. The demands placed upon children by their | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
parents and by society are enormous. It is important we have a balance. | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
We are talking about primary age children being subjected to these | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
changes. That is very important. Andreas Schleicher, that is | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
something we hear about, that children in other countries are | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
hothouse. It is very strict, the discipline, when it comes to | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
education. That is true. And I think the focus on mathematics teaching, | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
how teachers of their own professional standards, every | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
teacher knows how to do this, I think that is a lot that we can | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
learn in western nations. Without necessarily adopting every part of | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
the culture, high expectations, pressure from parents. But I think | :23:32. | :23:38. | |
the focus on Maths teaching, there is a lot we can learn. Maths is | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
something we are struggling with somewhat in this country. We are | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
struggling with having an adequate supply of well-qualified Maths | :23:51. | :23:52. | |
teachers. The government needs to address that to ensure that we do | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
have Maths teachers, that the profession is genuinely valued and | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
lauded, not attacked by government. We need to have teachers | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
across-the-board. When we have a full supply, proper training, | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
in-service training, we can keep on top of issues in a constructive way. | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
It is not helpful to simply think you can take an overlay, someone | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
else's mathematics solutions, and think they will work in this | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
country. Just getting the expertise from these teachers from Shanghai, | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
there are going to be ideas of how to teach, what they specifically do. | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
Surely that is beneficial? They may well be. I am not clear, but the way | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
in which mass is being taught in this country is wrong, -- that the | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
way in which mathematics in this country is being taught is wrong. We | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
need to be cautious about finding simple solutions. It is a good | :24:46. | :24:48. | |
story, but will it fundamentally make the difference? I think the way | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
the difference will be made in this country is to have a well valued, | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
fully formed teaching profession. So we're not having a shortage of | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
teachers. Andreas Schleicher, that is a good point, isn't it? We may | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
simply need more teachers. Absolutely, to have inspiration from | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
other approaches around the world. We will not do this in any other | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
field, and I believe there is a lot we can learn to build that kind of | :25:17. | :25:19. | |
profession, attract the best qualified people and the most | :25:20. | :25:22. | |
challenging crass rooms. -- classrooms. Looking at it doesn't | :25:23. | :25:29. | |
mean that you have to cut and paste it. It is a matter of looking at | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
different approaches and learning from them. Jerry Glazier, I was | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
reading about the process used in Shanghai, that's teachers share | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
their information. They are all encouraged to look into their | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
methods. Also this idea that you don't necessarily, you are not good | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
at bad Maths, you learn it. It is about being taught and doing the | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
hard work. In this country, there is a tendency of, you are either good | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
or bad? I don't think that's true, teachers want to enable students to | :26:05. | :26:07. | |
get the best out of education. For some children, accessing mathematics | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
can be complicated and difficult for them. You need to have a variety of | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
techniques to ensure they are engaged. We need Julian gauged | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
students on a curriculum that is relevant and provides them with | :26:21. | :26:23. | |
opportunities for the future. We are not in the education business to | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
produce people who are going to provide simply to the economic | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
benefit of the country. Jerry Glazier and Andreas Schleicher, | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
thank you for a much. We have to leave it there, we're out of time. | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
If you want more information on that story, it is on our website. From me | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
and the team on World News Today, thanks very much for watching. | :26:48. | :26:50. | |
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