雅思阅读真题+题目+答案：tricky sums and psychology

雅思阅读真题+题目+答案：tricky sums and psychology

雅思阅读真题原文如下：

A. In their first years of studying mathematics at school, children all over the world usually have to learn the times table, also known as the multiplication table, which shows what you get when you multiply numbers together. Children have traditionally learned their times table by going from '1 times 1 is 1' all the way up to '12 times 12 is 144'.

B. Times tables have been around for a very long time now. The oldest known tables using base 10 numbers, the base that is now used everywhere in the world, are written on bamboo strips dating from 305 BC, found in China. However, in many European cultures the times table is named after the Ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras (570-495 BC). And so it is called the Table of Pythagoras in many languages, including French and Italian.

C. In 1820, in his book The Philosophy of Arithmetic, the mathematician John Leslie recommended that young pupils memories the times table up to 25 x 25. Nowadays, however, educators generally believe it is important for children to memorise the table up to 9 x 9, 10 x 10 or 12 x12.

D. The current aim in the UK is for school pupils to know all their times tables up to 12 x 12 by the age of nine. However, many people do not know them, even as adults. Recently, some politicians have been asked arithmetical questions of this kind. For example, in 1998, the schools minister Stephen Byers was asked the answer to 7 x 8. He got the answer wrong, saying 54 rather than 56, and everyone laughed at him.

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Questions 14-19

The text has seven paragraphs, A-G.

Which paragraph contains the following information?

Write the correct letter, A-G, next to questions 14-19.

14 _______ a 19th-century opinion of what children should learn

15 _______ the most difficult sums

16 _______ the effect of pressure on doing something

17 _______ how children learn the times table

18 _______ a politician who got a sum wrong

19 _______ a history of the times table

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