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Mathematics, the schoolboy's horror, is perking up again after a long sabbatical in the educational doghouse. During the '30s the proportion of high-school pupils taking math dropped a third in six years, and many an educator dismissed algebra, to the vast relief of pupils, as a useless subject. But last week there were signs aplenty that U.S. schools were returning to the view that there is much to be said for the third...
...Study of arithmetic, algebra and geometry is combined, relations between them explained...
...this requires sweeping revision of the famed old standard textbooks (e.g., Robinson's Practical Arithmetic, Wentworth's New School Algebra, the Schultze & Sevenoak's Plane and Solid Geometry...
...Navy has had to turn down hundreds of candidates for commissions because of deficiencies in math, said Lieut. Commander Burton Davis, urging the preparatory schools to make every boy take at least two and a half years of math, including algebra, plane and solid geometry, trigonometry...
...Adjustment," as Salmen and his staff define it, is a broad term. At this particular time of year, it usually refers to students who have had poor preparation. Some haven't had a complete enough background in algebra to hold them above water in Physics C others have too scanty a knowledge of French to carry them through the first weeks of French E. Such cases can usually be bandled in an average of under four hours...