Chapter 256 Is This Mathematics?
There was no need for Chaochao to convey this, Ah Shan heard it himself.
It was obviously stunned for a moment, and then suddenly screamed, "Yes, how could I forget, Chao Chao, you don't even need to speak, I can hear you even if you talk to me in your mind."
Chao Chao repeated Ah Shan's words, and Jian Yunsang said, "..."
She knew that Ashan must be a novice and Chaochao was definitely its first host.
Jian Yunsang exhaled, "Okay, then you can communicate in your minds."
After giving the instructions, Jian Yunsang took Chao Chao back to the classroom to continue supervising the exam.
Chaochao was obviously in a much happier mood. She still sat in her original seat. Although her eyes were still on the book, her mind was already away from it, happily communicating with Ashan.
As a result, even the people in Daqi couldn't hear what they said.
Emperor Jingxuan was disappointed. He had been hoping that Ah Shan would wake up, but now that it really woke up, he could see and hear even less information.
Just as I was thinking about it, I saw movement in the classroom. A student had finished the test paper and checked it, and stood up to hand it in.
Emperor Jingxuan couldn't help but stick his head out again, but still couldn't see what the questions on the test paper looked like.
After Jian Yunsang collected the test papers, he waited for the students to leave and started grading them on the spot.
She worked very quickly, and by the time the next person came to hand in their paper, she had already finished correcting all the papers.
Later on, a lot of money was paid one after another. Jian Yunsang showed no expression on his face, but he couldn't help sighing in his heart.
The grades of several students who were good at math two years ago have dropped. No, it should be said that the overall math grades have not met her expectations.
Teacher Cao is completely focused on how to accept gifts, right?
When the bell rang for the end of get out of class, more than half of the students were still sitting in their seats, some doing final checks, some not finishing all their answers, or still hesitating.
Jian Yunsang stood up and said, "Okay, hand in your papers."
After all the test papers were collected, sighs were soon heard in the classroom.
"I still have two big questions to do."
"It's so difficult, Mr. Jian, did you really just change a few data points? Instead of changing a lot of big questions?"
Jian Yunsang put away the test papers and said with a smile, "I was dragged here by the principal at short notice, so how could I have time to correct the big questions? Well, the test is over, wait until I have corrected all the papers, and then I will review them for you."
She called Chao Chao, "Let's go, the brothers and sisters need to rest for a while because they still have classes to go to."
Chao Chao followed her out of the classroom and asked curiously, "When is the next class?"
"They will start class in ten minutes."
Chao Chao was surprised, "So fast?"
However, at this moment, the Daqi scholars under the sky were envious to death. They could actually rest and move freely during the rest time. They could go out and run without the teachers' restraint and management. Were they really taking the classes seriously?
The class they just had wasn't even half an hour, right?
Poor Daqi's class, the teacher would teach for an hour or two from the beginning. Even going to the toilet had to be reported to the teacher, not to mention walking around.
Not only them, but even Emperor Jingxuan felt itchy.
From the moment the bell rang for class, he made people remember the time. By the time the bell rang for the end of get out of class, it was only quarter of an hour, just that short.
Moreover, there is a ten-minute break after each class. These students sit or stand in an irregular manner, but they look very relaxed at a glance.
One minister could not help but step forward and said, "Your Majesty, I think that the class schedule arrangement in later generations seems to be more reasonable. Studying should be a combination of work and rest. Otherwise, it is easy to get tired and sleepy in the second half of the class, and the ability to absorb knowledge will be half the result with twice the effort."
Please, please change Daqi's study time. His son comes back from school every day and starts complaining, refusing to attend classes and being very tired of studying.
This time Emperor Jingxuan nodded without hesitation. After all, when he was still a prince, his legs became numb due to long classes. He fell when he stood up, causing others to laugh. This became a shadow that haunted him for a long time.
"Okay, then we'll follow the timetable of later generations. After years of experimentation, later generations must have found the most suitable time period for studying."
Other ministers, "..."
So...it's decided?
After saying this, Emperor Jingxuan looked up at the sky again with a happy mood.
Jian Yunsang has returned to the office. She plans to correct the remaining test papers before going back.
Chaochao chatted with Ah Shan for a while, then sat aside and drank water. She didn't disturb Jian Yunsang, but still went over to take a look out of curiosity.
After taking a look, Daqi naturally saw the contents of the test paper.
The scholars especially moved forward, and then one by one began to frown.
"Is this... mathematics?"
“I don’t understand it at all.”
"Aren't they our descendants? Could it be that they have completely abandoned our scholarship?"
Everyone looked at each other, and even Emperor Jingxuan frowned.
Suddenly, he thought of Ah Shan, and hurriedly coughed and called him, "Ah Shan, Ah Shan, can Miss Jian tell us whether this mathematics is completely unrelated to ancient arithmetic?"
Ah Shan conveyed his meaning. Jian Yunsang was stunned when he heard it and put away the test paper he had just corrected.
She didn't hide this kind of thing.
There was no one in the office, so she pretended to explain to Chao Chao, "Of course it is related. Ancient mathematics was actually very advanced. For example, the Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art was already available during the Eastern Han Dynasty. Unfortunately, only a few scholars in ancient times studied this discipline, and most people even looked down on arithmetic, which led to the loss of a lot of knowledge and stagnation of theory. But in fact, the equations, geometric arithmetic, and multiplication formulas we are learning now have all existed since a long time ago, and they are still the basis of mathematics. As for why the people of Daqi can't understand it, it's probably because the symbols have been replaced."
Speaking of this, Jian Yunsang still had some resentment. If Daqi was like the Ming Dynasty, where the examinations were based on eight-part essays, that would be really bad.
She sighed, "Because our ancestors regarded mathematics as a minor skill, more and more scholars gave up this hobby and could only be trapped in the framework to write articles and take the imperial examinations, so there were fewer and fewer breakthroughs in mathematics. Later, Western countries began to develop. They attached importance to mathematics and were the first to use their symbols to embed mathematical formulas. If we want to learn more mathematical knowledge, we can only use their formulas and symbols to calculate. Nowadays, mathematics has become our main subject in school, but many students who have been studying since elementary school do not know what the Nine Chapters of Arithmetic is."
The people of Daqi Dynasty... were all stunned.
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