Professor Chen Yi-liang of National Taiwan University's mathematics department observes that the maths teaching materials introduced under the new nine-year integrated curriculum are overly simplistic and shallow, so that students 'level lags one to two years behind the old textbooks used in Taiwan, and those currently used in the US.
台大數學系教授陳宜良就指出，台灣新的九年一貫數學教材過簡也過淺，進度比台灣舊教材慢了一到兩年，也和美國差距約一到兩年。