According to a statement issued by the United Nations Refugee Agency on April 20, as the conflict between Russia and Ukraine continues, more than 5 million Ukrainians have poured into European neighboring countries, most of which are women and children.

According to a statement issued by the United Nations Refugee Agency on April 20, as the conflict between Russia and Ukraine continues, more than 5 million Ukrainians have poured into European neighboring countries, most of which are women and children. United Nations UNICEF previous data showed that 4.3 million of Ukraine's 7.5 million children have been displaced, of which more than 1.8 million have fled Ukraine.

Foreign media reports pointed out that some Ukrainian children seeking refuge in foreign countries are gradually being included in the local education system. Despite the language barriers, their mathematical abilities "shocked" local teachers. Some teachers believe that Ukrainian students have at least one year ahead of European students of the same age.

↑ Ukrainian refugees on the border of Poland .

It is reported that in France, about 10,000 Ukrainian children have entered local schools to continue their education, while the Italian education system has absorbed nearly 16,000 Ukrainian children to study in schools. Some local teachers noticed that the vast majority of Ukrainian children can neither speak English nor French, but they are better at calculating and understanding mathematics.

"Ukrainian students are better at math than French students," Pierre Priure, a math teacher from Toulouse City in southwestern France, said in an interview with the media. "All my middle school colleagues say that Ukrainian students perform more prominently in the classroom."

↑ French teachers said that Ukrainian children seem to be one year ahead of French students of the same age.

Another French math teacher, Marian, said that Ukrainian students' math ability is one year ahead of French students of the same age. The French teachers' evaluations were also recognized by their Italian counterparts. Laurisella, a female principal of a school in Rome, said, "They have very good mathematics and can learn to use computers faster than our children."

comes from west of Kiev 14-year-old Angelina is a member of the teacher's attention. Although her French is not very good, she is one step ahead in math. Angelina said: "The courses here are much easier than when I was in Ukraine, and I learned these problems a long time ago. Although we train differently, I don't mind." According to her math teacher, Angelina also spontaneously helped her deskmate study. "Malus, since he sat next to Angelina, his mathematics has improved a lot."

, which has sparked debate on the decline in Western European curriculum standards because the evaluations of French and Italian teachers are not consistent with the survey conclusions of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). According to the Global School Score Level Survey conducted by the OECD in 2018, Ukrainian students scored 453 points in mathematics, down from Italy's 487 points and France's 495 points.

Ukrainian education expert Roman Shiyan said that math classes in Ukraine may be "hard", and he has always advocated "reducing the burden" for Ukrainian students' mathematics learning. Andrea Carlino, an employee of the Italian education website "Orizzontescuola", said, "These children who escaped their homes have shown us that we still have to do a lot of things to catch up."

Red Star News reporter Ding Wen Intern Guo Yue

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