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...unusual circumstances of life on the ranch meant that the brothers themselves took responsibility for their own educations. Starting in 1973, when the Colfaxes moved to California from St. Louis, Missouri, the boys took on their own projects and helped each other learn everything from basic algebra to plumbing...

Author: By Nara K. Nahm, | Title: Homeschoolers Are at Home at Harvard | 3/16/1989 | See Source »

...stories or topics they study in class. Fully a fourth of all 13-year-olds fail to grasp the principles of basic math. That problem is apparently not remedied in high school, where almost half of all students are unable to solve problems using decimals, percentages, basic geometry or algebra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Mixed Review | 2/27/1989 | See Source »

Needless to say, I found her far more intriguing than pre-pre-algebra...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: Of Valentine's Day and Cooties | 2/14/1989 | See Source »

...professor has taught and studied almost every math course in the catalog from Math B, an old algebra course, to Math 212, "Functions of a Real Variable," a course on abstract set theory...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: Integrating Math and Students | 10/7/1988 | See Source »

Moreover, the tests, which range over five achievement levels from simple arithmetic to algebra, are not all that tough. A typical base-level question: Which of these numbers is closest to 30? 20, 28, 34 or 40? A top-level question asks: Suppose you have ten coins and have at least one each of a quarter, a dime, a nickel and a penny. What is the least amount of money you could have? Kids who cannot handle such penny-ante stuff are undoubtedly in deep trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Flunking Grade in Math | 6/20/1988 | See Source »

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