魔都教师团成英国数学教育救世主！

 　　Lilianjie Lu stands in a London classroom, struggling slightly with her English but with a winning smile on her face, as she attempts to teach them all about fractions.

　　Lilianjie Lu站在伦敦的教室里，说着不熟练的英语，但脸上挂着信心满满的微笑，她试着教大家分数。

　　Lu has left her five-year-old daughter, her husband and her job as a primary school teacher in Shanghai to come to England to teach children maths – the Chinese way.

　　Lu离开了她5岁的女儿，她的丈夫和在上海小学教师的工作来到英国教授孩子们数学（且是中式教学）。

　　She is one of 30 Shanghai teachers currently¹ working in primary schools across England, flown in by the Department for Education in the hope they can work their mathematical magic on a generation of children and raise flagging standards.

　　她是如今在英国小学工作的30名上海教师中的一员，英国教育部门邀请他们而来，希望他们能用“数学魔法”来教授英国的下一代，使得萎靡不振的数学教育崛起。

　　魔都教师团成英国数学教育救世主！

　　“English teachers would have moved on so much more quickly,” whispers Ben McMullen, deputy² head at Fox school and senior lead in the local maths hub. “They dwell³ on it for what seems a long time so every single child understands exactly what’s going on. We move them on too quickly before they’ve properly understood the principle.”

　　“英国教师本来会迅速的一略而过，”福克斯学校的副校长兼本地数学中心资深主管本·麦克马伦轻声低语，“（但中国数学老师）他们详细地叙述很长时间，这样每个孩子都能够理解。我们讲的太快了，他们都没搞清正确的原理呢。”

　　Lu is now asking the children what a fraction is. “If the whole is divided in to three equal parts, each part is a third of the whole,” one child explains. The other children follow suit, repeating and adapting their answer to explain the fraction written on the board.

　　Lu如今正在问孩子们什么是分数。“如果一份分成了三等份，每一小份就是一大份的1/3，”一个小孩解释道。“其他小孩就跟着学样，重复，调整他们的答案来解释黑板上的分数。

　　“There’s a lot of chanting and recitation which to our English ears seems a bit formulaic,” says McMullen, “but it’s a way of embedding⁴ that understanding.”

　　“听在我们这些说英语的人耳里，这就跟念咒和诵经一样，有那么一点公式化，”麦克马伦说道，“但是这是一种理解植入的方法。”

1 currently   

adv.通常地，普遍地，当前

参考例句：

• Currently it is not possible to reconcile this conflicting evidence.当前还未有可能去解释这一矛盾的例证。
• Our contracts are currently under review.我们的合同正在复查。

2 deputy   

n.代理人，代表，副职；adj.代理的，副的

参考例句：

• John will act as a deputy for me during my absence.我离开期间，约翰将代理我的职务。
• She is the deputy headmistress of the school.她是那所学校的代理校长。

3 dwell   

vi.老是想着，详细讲述

参考例句：

• Sometimes his mind would dwell on the horrors he had been through.有时他会老是想着他所经历过的种种恐怖。
• A great number of water fowls dwell on the island.许多水鸟在岛上栖息。

4 embedding   

把…嵌入，埋入( embed的现在分词 )； 植入； 埋置； 包埋

参考例句：

• Data embedding in scrambled Digital video complete source code, has been tested. 数据嵌入在炒数字视频完整的源代码，已经过测试。
• Embedding large portions of C++ code in string literals is very awkward. 将大部分C++代码嵌入到字符串中是非常笨拙的。