Quantitative comparison on the difficulty of manual books used in Chinese and Romanian primary schools———Based on the Bao’s Difficulty Model

Xiaoying Feng, Loan Neacsu

Abstract


In study before, we found that the mathematics scores of Romanian primary and secondary school students were not satisfactory compared with the children of the same age in China. The reason may be multifaceted, and this study start from the most objective material, the textbooks, to compare the difficulty, and try to find the truth hidden behind.

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Difficult model, textbook, Romanian, Chinese

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36012/fhe.v2i1.1568

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