Hung Wan-sheng, a math professor at National Taiwan Normal University, argues that the reason that students from Taiwan do so well in math abroad is not unconnected to the good foundations acquired from intensive drilling in Taiwan. Were the children simply poor math students in Taiwan, or did they confront psychological obstacles that arose from poor teaching?
師大數學系教授洪萬生指出，到國外的台灣學生數學表現會比較好，與台灣精熟練習教育下的基礎不無關係，過去這些孩子在台灣數學成績不好，或許是因為教學不當所形成的心理因素。