I strongly feels the teaching of Math & Science in English should continue, BUT i felt that the implementation should be reviewed.
Children born among the urban, middle-upper class families will have no problem in understanding and adapting to study in English, especially those english speaking families.
What about those born in the rural areas, where the parents are illiterate in English, how are they going to guide their children?
To me, please let the Children understand English in their first year, teach them the Mathematical jargon - addition, add, plus, increase, decrease, subtract, minus, divide, multiply, times. I saw my daughter's first year mathematic book: plus, add and addition was used - for a non-English speaking kids this is really confusing.
Please do your study or research down on the field, go to Kampung-kampung and meet all the rural teachers get feedback from orang-orang kampung and rural teachers. Upgrade all those government kindergarten - Tadika Kemas & Perpaduan. Get on your feet, we don't need assumptions and behind-the-desk research. Put yourself in the rural and lower income group shoes, you will understand better.
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