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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">The <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Seattle</st1:place></st1:City> Times</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Math lessons in Mandarin? Local schools go global</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">For nearly an hour, no one speaks a word of English in this first-grade math class.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Not the teacher, Ying Ying Wu, who talks energetically in Mandarin's songlike tones.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Not the students — 6- and 7-year-olds who seem to follow along fine, even though only one speaks Mandarin at home.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Even the math test has been translated, by Wu, into Chinese characters.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">At <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Beacon Hill</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">International</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>, many students learn a second language along with their ABCs by spending half of each school day immersed in Mandarin Chinese or Spanish.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Full story:</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011525042_international05m.html</P></DIV></BODY></HTML>