Transcript The Math In Other Countries

• Location: In the east of the Asian continent, on
the western shore of the Pacific Ocean.
• Climate: Extremely diverse; tropical in the south
to subarctic in the north
• Geography: Mountains, high plateaus, and
deserts in the west; plains, deltas, and hills in the
east. The highest mountain in China is the highest
mountain in the world: Mount Qomolangma. The
mountain towers above all others at 29,035 feet
or 8,848 m
• The Communist Party of China (CPC) is the
country's sole political party in power. Hu
Jintao became general secretary of the CPC at
its 16th National Congress in November 2002.
Founded in July 1921, the CPC today has more
than 66 million members and over 3.5 million
basic organizations. Besides the CPC, there are
eight political parties
•
GDP (2010 est.): $5.88 trillion (exchange rate-based); $10.09 trillion (purchasing power
parity).
Per capita GDP (2010): $7,600 (purchasing power parity).
GDP real growth rate (2010): 10.3%.
Natural resources: Coal, iron ore, petroleum, natural gas, mercury, tin, tungsten, antimony,
manganese, molybdenum, vanadium, magnetite, aluminum, lead, zinc, uranium, hydropower
potential (world's largest).
Agriculture: Products--Among the world's largest producers of rice, wheat, potatoes, corn,
peanuts, tea, millet, barley; commercial crops include cotton, other fibers, apples, oilseeds,
pork and fish; produces variety of livestock products.
Industry: Types--mining and ore processing, iron, steel, aluminum, and other metals, coal;
machine building; armaments; textiles and apparel; petroleum; cement; chemicals; fertilizers;
consumer products, including footwear, toys, and electronics; food processing;
transportation equipment, including automobiles, rail cars and locomotives, ships, and
aircraft; telecommunications equipment, commercial space launch vehicles, satellites.
Trade: Exports (2010)--$1.506 trillion: electrical and other machinery, including data
processing equipment, apparel, textiles, iron and steel, optical and medical equipment. Main
partners (2009)--U.S. 20.03%, Hong Kong 12.03%, Japan 8.32%, South Korea 4.55%, Germany
4.27%. Imports (2010 est.)--$1.307 trillion: electrical and other machinery, oil and mineral
fuels, optical and medical equipment, metal ores, plastics, organic chemicals. Main partners
(2009)--Japan 12.27%, Hong Kong 10.06%, South Korea 9.04%, U.S. 7.66%, Taiwan 6.84%,
Germany 5.54%.
Currency: Renminbi.
• China’s literacy rate: (age 15+ who can read and write)
total population: 91.6%
male: 95.7%
female: 87.6%
• School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education):
male: 11 years
female: 12 years (2009)
• Education expenditures:
1.9% of GDP
Global rank: #172
• Location: Eastern Asia, island chain between
the North Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan,
east of the Korean Peninsula
• Climate: varies from tropical in south to cool
temperate in north
• Geography: strategic location in northeast Asia
• Civil law system based on German model;
system also reflects Anglo-American influence
and Japanese traditions; judicial review of
legislative acts in the Supreme Court
• GDP/PPP (2009 est.): $4.13 trillion; per capita
$32,600. Real growth rate:–5.3%. Inflation: –
1.3%. Unemployment: 5.6%. Arable land: 12%.
Agriculture: rice, sugar beets, vegetables, fruit;
pork, poultry, dairy products, eggs; fish. Labor
force: 66.07 million; agriculture 4.6%, industry
27.8%, services 67.7% (2004). Industries: among
world's largest and technologically advanced
producers of motor vehicles, electronic
equipment, machine tools, steel and nonferrous
metals, ships, chemicals, textiles, processed
foods.
• Japan has a near 100 percent literacy rate.
• Japan spends 3.3 percent of GDP on education.
• The Japanese take a hierarchal, top down approach to education. The
Ministry of Education (Monbushu) makes most policy decisions, and sets
guidelines for textbooks, curriculum, standards, testing, and finances in
private as well as public schools throughout the nation.
• Compulsory education in Japan is nine years for children aged 6 to 14. In
January 2006, the government said it wanted to expand compulsory
education from nine years to 10 years or 11 years by making kindergarten
required. In 97 percent of Japanese choose to go to high school after their
compulsory education is completed.
• Japanese women are among the best educated in the world. In 2005, 42.5
percent of them had at least some post-secondary education.
Type: Federal republic.
Independence: August 15, 1947.
Constitution: January 26, 1950.
Branches: Executive--president
(chief of state), prime minister
(head of government), Council of
Ministers (cabinet). Legislative-bicameral parliament (Rajya Sabha
or Council of States, and Lok Sabha
or House of the People). Judicial-Supreme Court.
Political parties: Indian National
Congress (INC), Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP), Communist Party of
India-Marxist, and numerous
regional and small national parties.
Political subdivisions: 28 states,* 7
union territories (including National
Capital Territory of Delhi).
GDP (FY 2011 est.): $1.843 trillion.
Real growth rate (2011 est.): 7.8%.
Per capita GDP (PPP, FY 2011 est.): $3,700.
Natural resources: Coal, iron ore, manganese, mica,
bauxite, chromite, thorium, limestone, barite, titanium
ore, diamonds, crude oil.
Agriculture: 18.1% of GDP. Products--wheat, rice, coarse
grains, oilseeds, sugar, cotton, jute, tea.
Industry: 26.3% of GDP. Products--textiles, jute,
processed food, steel, machinery, transport equipment,
cement, aluminum, fertilizers, mining, petroleum,
chemicals, and computer software.
Services and transportation: 55.6% of GDP.
Trade: Exports (FY 2011 est.)--$298.2 billion; engineering
goods, petroleum products, precious stones, cotton
apparel and fabrics, gems and jewelry, handicrafts, tea.
Services exports ($101.2 billion in 2008-2009) represent
more than one-third of India's total exports. Software
exports (FY 2009)--$35.76 billion. Imports (FY 2011 est.)-$451 billion; petroleum, machinery and transport
equipment, electronic goods, edible oils, fertilizers,
chemicals, gold, textiles, iron and steel. Major trade
partners--U.S., China, U.A.E., EU, Russia, Japan.
Climate/Geography
• India is a country in South Asia.
• It is the Seventh-Largest country by area and
second-largest by populous democracy in the
world.
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• Location: North America, bordering both the North Atlantic
Ocean and the North Pacific Ocean, between Canada and
Mexico
• Climate: mostly temperate, but tropical in Hawaii and
Florida, arctic in Alaska, semiarid in the great plains west of
the Mississippi River, and arid in the Great Basin of the
southwest; low winter temperatures in the northwest are
ameliorated occasionally in January and February by warm
Chinook winds from the eastern slopes of the Rocky
Mountains
• Geography: world's third-largest country by size (after
Russia and Canada) and by population (after China and
India); Mt. McKinley is highest point in North America and
Death Valley the lowest point on the continent
• Democratic Party [Debbie Wasserman SCHULTZ];
Green Party; Libertarian Party [Mark HINKLE];
Republican Party [Reince PRIEBUS].
• Environmentalists; business groups; labor unions;
churches; ethnic groups; political action
committees or PAC; health groups; education
groups; civic groups; youth groups; transportation
groups; agricultural groups; veterans groups;
women's groups; reform lobbies.
• The US has the largest and most technologically powerful economy
in the world, with a per capita GDP of $48,100. In this marketoriented economy, private individuals and business firms make
most of the decisions, and the federal and state governments buy
needed goods and services predominantly in the private
marketplace. US business firms enjoy greater flexibility than their
counterparts in Western Europe and Japan in decisions to expand
capital plant, to lay off surplus workers, and to develop new
products. The onrush of technology largely explains the gradual
development of a "two-tier labor market" in which those at the
bottom lack the education and the professional/technical skills of
those at the top and, more and more, fail to get comparable pay
raises, health insurance coverage, and other benefits.
• Also in a big DEBT!!!!
• Overview
Total Number of School Districts -- 14,881
Total Number of Public Schools -- 85,393
Total Number of Private and Catholic Schools -- 34,438
Total Public School Enrollment -- 45,037,000
Total Public School Teachers -- 2,595,000
Public School Student-Teacher Ratio -- 17:1
Private School Student-Teacher Ratio -- 15:1
• Maine has the best score in the nation on the 1994 NAEP 4th grade
reading test, and 59% of its fourth graders could not read at a proficient
level.
• Iowa led the nation on the 1992 NAEP math exam, and 69% of its 8th
graders were below the proficient level.
• 85% of Louisiana's 4th graders read blow the proficient level.
• 94% of Mississippi's 8th graders score below the proficient level in math.