Translation of chinese math related words?
May 9, 2008 2:58 PM   Subscribe

Help a chinese student: I am teaching elementary statistic to a young chinese , but I have an hard time explaining him words such as : average, mean, median, mode, quotient, ratio, standard deviation etc. I am looking for a list of math/science words english<>chine, a mini vocabulary (doc/pdf/whatever) as I don't trust online translation programs too much.
posted by elpapacito to Writing & Language (3 answers total)
 
Best answer: I just learned this in my Chinese class! plus is pronounced 'jia', minus is pronounced ' jian', and times is pronounced 'cheng'.

jia is pronounced jee-ah
jian - jee -ahn
cheng - cheung, not chang

In addition, go here and click on the PDF document on top, print it out and have him tell you how to say them.



What I used to do when I used to teach foreign language is to have the students bring english to chinese dictionaries and I'd look it up and show it to them and they'll get it.
posted by icollectpurses at 3:12 PM on May 9, 2008 [1 favorite]


I don't know why the link didn't work...here you go...
http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED306134&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED306134
posted by icollectpurses at 3:12 PM on May 9, 2008


Response by poster: Fantastic resource, thanks a lot!!
posted by elpapacito at 3:15 PM on May 9, 2008


« Older Where I can get exquisite business cards that...   |   Best way to deal fairly with non-spam, malicious... Newer »
This thread is closed to new comments.