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Jan.3, 2003

Dear Mathematics Teachers,

To make studying Mathematics a little more fun, I have posted a “Math Quiz” web page at:

Those quizzes have been given to the students of the Japanese Saturday School at the Kennedy Middle

School, where I teach Mathematics in one of three 7^th grade classes, and in the 10^th grade class in

Japanese. An official name of the Saturday school is the San Francisco Japanese Language Class Inc.,

760 Market St.,#816 San Francisco, CA 94102. At the Saturday Japanese School, Junior High(7^th – 9^th)

students take 2 periods of Mathematics, 2 periods of Japanese language , 1 period of Science, and 1

period of Japanese Social Study. High school (10^th, 11^th) students take 2 periods of writing classes,

and 2 elective periods of either Mathematics or Social Study. Teaching in the school is done all in

Japanese.

Roughly speaking, a half of the graduates of the High School of the Saturday Japanese School go

to Japanese universities /colleges, and the rest will go to universities/colleges in US. Students at

the Saturday Japanese school attend local schools Monday-Friday, and attend full day Saturday

at the Saturday Japanese school.

Some students who came to US in the last few years have difficulty in communicating in English

with teaches and classmates at local schools, and for some students who have been grown up

in US, speaking English is more natural than speaking Japanese. Because students at the Saturday

Japanese school spend 5 days at local Middle Schools or High Schools, I am interested in

communicating with Mathematics teaches and other subject teachers who teach students of the

Saturday Japanese School. If you are interested in looking at your students at the Japanese

Saturday School in Japanese speaking environment, you are welcome to join the classes.

Please feel free to visit the web page and please send me any comments in e-mails. Thank you.

Best Regards, Yasuo Fukui

Math teacher , Physicist

(650)926-2146 (office)