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American and Chinese education learns to balance each other for the average students. for the ultra smart,they do what they are good at. when I was at high school in china, I can solve complex algebra and geometry problem which I don't know how I did that today. I never thought public speaking or organisation skill etc is skill. I have the wrong belief like how you can talk about it if you are not expert of it. now in china people already start to reduce difficulties of maths problem in exam and pay a bit more attention on soft skill. in US, people might think to equip american kids with more math skill so that in future they can embrace more discipline. one example i see good programmers not willing to do computer graphics because they are worried about their math skills. maybe that is why post like maths you need to know for programming is popular