Translation of chinese math related words?

May 9, 2008 2:58 PM

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 comments total)

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 [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

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