In India, it is no longer near good enough for the student to know the multiplication tables up to 12 x 12.
No. Now they go up to 99 x 99.
As a result of this and new, improved, and very very advanced, learning techniques, the children of India are outscoring the children of Japan.
The Japanese are taking this very hard.
Not ones though, to waste time on the 'oh well' principle or anything, looking simply to eradicate the lag in their own students, they have dashed to the Indian schools to see what they are doing. And they are looking to the Indian schools already established in Japan. And are beginning to enroll their children in these schools...starting at kindergarten.
It is working.
Now the Japanese kindergarten children can, by three years old, count...well, very high. And write short essays by five. Just like their Indian compatriots.
My mind drifts towards what those five year olds might write in their essays:
I SAW DICK AND JANE FIRST
DICK AND JANE HAVE FUN EVERYDAY
MY CAT NAMED SPOT
BLONDES RULE
And then I thought I'd just check--
99 x 99 = nine thousand, eight hundred and one.
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