Word: algebraical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Flip through these pages and it's 1938. The maple leaves whisper outside the bedroom window and the algebra book is lying unopened on the desk. The Emerson table radio is tuned to WGR, Buffalo, as the announcer asks you to join him in "the small house halfway up in the next block" and the voice of Vic comes through the speaker greeting his son Rush: "Hi de hi, ho de ho, ink stopper...
...word about Math Ar. This course was designed to fill a gap which the Math Department denied existed until the inception of the course. Math Ar prepares students for calculus and prepares students for sciences that require facility in algebra, trig. etc. As far as medical schools are concerned, with very rare exceptions among those schools requiring calculus per se, Math Ar is sufficient to fulfill half of the premed math requirement. As a course, it has status with any other: it is offered for credit; and it is perhaps more conscientiously taught than other math courses. Students are sometimes...
...possible to take Math Ar, Math la and lb in sequences beginning with the fall semester of freshman year. If you feel your background in math is good, take Math 1 straight off. If you have less than 600 on the math SATs, or did not have a full algebra II and trigonometry course in high school, you should consider Math Ar. AP in the AB Math AP exam leads most appropriately to Math lb, which should be taken straight off at the beginning of freshman year: and BC Math AP leads most appropriately to Math 20 or 21. Math...
...blue jeans ambled up to a cluster of others, aged five to 18, sitting under an avocado tree. "Does anybody know where the algebra book is?" he asked. It seemed there were only two, and one was last seen "on the blue table under a pile of crap and stuff." Pointing at a beat-up 1952 Chevrolet that reminds the kids of hoodlum movies, a boy suggested, "Look in the gangster car." The big kid eventually found the book-and someone to teach him a lesson from it. But a visitor had to ask: Is this education...
Philip M. Cronin 53, Interim Rent Control Administrator, defended his rent control guidelines last night before a crowd of 250 people in a meeting more like an unruly ninth grade algebra class than a City Council hearing...