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...Bott accepted a position in the Harvard Mathematics Department, where he remains to this day. He has taught classes on calculus, linear algebra and group theory. His most recent teaching subjects include introductory topology and differential geometry...
...schools were segregated by law into white and "colored" facilities, attendance was high. In 1950, average daily attendance at Baltimore's senior high schools was a stellar 92% for both black and white children. In 1954, according to city school records, 83.1% of white high school seniors "achieved" in algebra; fully 99.2% of black students did likewise...
...America. Out of that meeting came a broad-brushed decision to devote attention and money to inner-city education, crime and incarceration, and professions such as law and medicine. Some funding is downright civic minded, including a high school-debate program and a $12 million commitment to the Algebra Project, which seeks to improve the mathematical and intuitive skills of students all over the country...
...Early last year, McKeown co-founded Mathematically Correct, a Website based in San Diego ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mathman/ that has become the nerve center for the counterinsurgency. Here parents like Marianne Jennings of Mesa, Ariz., share dispatches from the front. Not long ago, Jennings watched her daughter Sarah, a straight-A algebra student, reach for a calculator to find 10% of 470. "It made my blood boil," says Jennings. In response, she and other parents pressured the school district to offer traditional math as a choice...
...cute neighbor he doesn't know--as an example of how teenage girls in the 1960s and '70s were taught to be blank images rather than real people. Never mind that the era gave rise to a slew of empowering female singer-songwriters; in Wolf's distorted algebra Tony Orlando cancels out the cultural weight of, say, Joni Mitchell...