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Cash & Good Will. Consul Emmett M. Coxson was so impressed by Kayira's "journey of unbelievable hardship" that he quickly wrote Skagit for aid. While the boy spent hours in the U.S.I.S. library boning up on algebra, Skagit's students raised more than $1,100 to guarantee clothing and round-trip fare. Schoolteacher William Atwood, father of seven, offered a free home at the Atwoods' roomy farmhouse in nearby Bayview. Mrs. Atwood quashed the only unpleasantness in the entire affair. Huffed one neighbor: "What if he wants to take your daughter to a dance?" Replied Mrs. Atwood...
...subjects that lend themselves easily to fragment learning, e.g., grammar, spelling, foreign languages, mathematics, automated teaching is far more efficient than the old-fashioned blackboard. New York's Collegiate School for boys tried teaching machines in math, found that 73 students completed in only two weeks an abstract-algebra course that usually requires two months. The Roanoke public schools used teaching machines on 34 eighth-graders-with no oral teaching and no homework-and in less than one semester, all 34 completed a year's work in algebra...
...these golden days of Arab power, Moslems were the world's intellectual elite-the perfectors of algebra (from the Arabic al-jabr: binding together), the founders of analytical geometry and of plane and spherical trigonometry, pioneers in astronomy (through their need to locate Mecca precisely). As scholars flocked in from all over the world-among them a young Frenchman who later became Pope Sylvester II (999-1003)-Fez flourished as the "Baghdad of the West...
...Arithmetic should be the main math diet for grades 7-8. Only the very able (3% to 5% nationally) should begin algebra in the eighth grade in order to tackle college math in the twelfth grade. ¶ Science should be a fulltime subject beginning in the-seventh grade. Biology (now usually taught in tenth grade) might well begin in ninth grade-but only if lab facilities can be provided. ¶ Foreign language should begin in seventh grade for "some, if not all, pupils." But the school must follow through with continuing instruction in the same language through twelfth grade...
Such classes would permit students with high mathematical aptitudes to begin the study of algebra in eighth or ninth grade...