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...patterns; numerals symbolize real things-the size of collections, the length of lines, the position of points. New math thus begins on the concrete level and only later moves to the abstract. Math is also a unified system; new math thus shows the interrelation of all branches, such as algebra and geometry, rather than teaching them as separate topics. The stress is on "discovery"-the artful question that sparks a child's desire to see patterns and find answers. The idea is to get children inside the structure of numbers by means of a "spiral curriculum"-constant re-translation...
Such "intuitive preparation," as Max Beberman calls it, is the key to great changes in better schools. Algebra is no longer taught as a collection of rules, with proofs reserved to geometry, for example. The subjects are complementary, and now begin in grade school. Plane and solid geometry are merged, allowing simultaneous treatment of a problem in two and three dimensions. More high schools teach statistics and probability; trigonometry stresses analysis of trigonometric functions rather than archaic solution of triangles...
...tantalizing questions are now bugging medical science: Can man learn to take more knowledge for his province by putting more of his brain to active use? What parts of the brain are responsible for controlling various movements, functions and faculties, from aimless thumb-twiddling to Boolean algebra? To the first question, there is still no answer. And neurologists have not yet agreed on a detailed mapping of brain areas and brain functions...
Vacation is no exception. Along with writing a play, choreographing a dance and reading A Tale of Two Cities, Roeper's seventh-graders were back in school this week after having spent Christmas voluntarily finishing up their first year of high school algebra. Tuning up for the school's spring "talent fair," a sixth-grader had polled all no state legislators on their views of Michigan's proposed new constitution. A seventh-grader fed radioactive food to mother mice to study its effect on sucklings; his pal built a Geiger counter to help out. One eighth-grader...
duties also included teaching physics, chemistry, algebra and Latin, and his salary was $1,700 a year. Three years later. Lombardi was head football, basketball and baseball coach; his 1945 basketball team won the New Jersey parochial school championship, and his football teams won 36 games in a row. On the strength of that record. Lombardi bounced back to Fordham in 1947-hoping some day to be named head football coach. But he stayed only two years. Fordham football was already on the skids; in 1954 the school gave up the game...