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I had the same experience going from a French elementary school to a German school. What we were taught in second grade only popped up again in 6th grade in Ge
by carlmr 5y ago
I had the same experience going from a French elementary school to a German school.
What we were taught in second grade only popped up again in 6th grade in Germany.
Then I went on exchange to the US in 10th grade and I noticed they were lagging behind the German system by about 2 years.
So US vs France must be a 6 year lag.
- whimsicalism 5y agoThe US does not have a universal education track, so hard to compare. From my interactions with French students and Romanian students in college, the Romanians seemed further ahead and the french were just on par.
- LeanderK 5y agohow would you compare the workload in the other subjects in Germany vs France? And how would you rate the german math education?
- carlmr 5y agoI think German math education was ok, probably not stellar, but good enough to prepare you well for engineering classes. I went on another (short) exchange to France later in 9th grade and they were still far ahead of the German system in math at that point. However, and this may sound stereotypical, their language education was pretty bad. While they were studying similar English literature as us, they were almost completely unable to speak English. When visiting language classes it was evident why, in Germany languages are studied interactively, in France it was only the teacher talking. I don't know if this changed since then or it was only at this school, but it seemed like such an easy fix. In terms of workload, I think the total was pretty similar.