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Although the Happy Hacker has yet to see more than a few successful applications of personal computers to the classroom, educators across the country have been writing software to assist and drill their students in everything from Algebra to Zoology. Kinko's copies, the Happy Hacker's favorite 24-hour copy center, has been the sponsor of a nationwide exchange program in which people at colleges across the country can trade various educational software. Look for their booth at the show and then make sure that you distract your chemistry professor should he attempt to gain more information. After...

Author: By Evan O. Grossman, | Title: Companies to Show Off Their Latest Gadgetry | 4/16/1987 | See Source »

...studies point out. Among his proposed first steps: development of well-trained math specialists to supplement the typical all-purpose teacher in the early grades. Usiskin will study translations of a number of foreign texts. "We can use them for ideas," he says. Further, he would move geometry and algebra preparation down into the seventh grade, leaving the later years free for advanced studies, including statistics and computers. Says Travers: "The demands of a high-tech society require that we upgrade the quality of mathematical education our children are getting. Maybe we could get by with a mediocre performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Bad News About Math | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

Zariski spent his life applying the principles of modern algebra to the study of algebraic geometry, which enables mathematicians to describe the properties of a set of points in any number of dimensions with algebraic equations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mathematician, Oscar Zariski, Dead At 86 | 7/11/1986 | See Source »

...goal is especially inapplicable to the academic disciplines it targets, the social sciences. The social sciences occupy a hazy realm of interpretation and bias. The verifiable accuracy demanded by AIA is as foreign to the social sciences as subjective interpretation is to basic algebra. We can assert--to take a nice, safe example--that Marx formulated his theories in the mid-nineteenth century; but beyond that, we can say little without provoking objections from a dozen different academic factions with far better credentials than those...

Author: By James A. Himes, | Title: The Academic Inquisitors | 2/26/1986 | See Source »

Citing a need for quality control, Martyn has only seven Reading Game centers under franchise. "It's not like selling hamburgers," he says. His competition, by contrast, has gone predominantly into franchises, and all three companies are offering or moving into subjects such as writing, speed writing and algebra. The cost of setting up a franchise with Sylvan or Huntington is around $50,000 to $100,000, depending on size. The typical licensee is a businessman; Huntington Founder Ray Huntington was a business analyst for AT&T. Sylvan's president Berry Fowler, however, was a junior high art teacher until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Teaching the Three Rs for Profit | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

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