This youtube of a Japanese TV program for kids gives great illustration to why Japanese are good at math and engineering.
Tori Johnson is guest blogging at another blog of mine, RisingSunOfNihon. On a most recent visit to Daily J I came across the video.
The characters say, in katagana, Pitagora suitchi - Pythagorean Switch.
Pythagorean - means of or pertaining to the ancient Ionian mathematician, philosopher, and music theorist Pythagoras."
And Japanese TV taps into this dude to teach kids....
How about that?
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