Word: blackboarding
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...after a talk by an evangelist. It was the silence before you heard the shuffle on the sawdust." Lockheed Vice President L. E. Root turned to his boss, Bob Gross, and whispered something, the sibilants resounding across the quiet room. When Root was finished. Bob Gross walked to the blackboard and wrote "Lockheed." General Electric's Ralph Cordiner stood up and said: "Give us the money and stay out of our hair." Everyone else simply nodded. The next day a Marine courier arrived at the Special Projects office in the old Munitions Building and delivered top-secret orders...
...University of Illinois last week, a big man in a rumpled brown suit strode up to a blackboard and wrote: ' times zero equals zero." Then he asked ten junior-high-school students to make the sentence "true" by filling in the blank. As 40 schoolteachers from as far away as Florida and Alaska looked on, the students excitedly gave Mathematician Max Beber-man their answer: the sentence is already true because anything times zero equals zero. What the teachers saw were ninth-graders discovering a math principle entirely by themselves. This approach is so important to Beberman that...
With a stern hand, the teacher writes x+5 = 9 on the blackboard. If a youngster pipes up that the "unknown" is 4. he is shushed. The teacher must first demonstrate the rigmarole of subtracting 5 from both sides of the equation to get 4. Says Beberman: "The student had a notion of what a variable really is - and probably for the last time." Numbers v. Numerals. In his own elementary algebra course, Beberman first focuses on the semantic difference between a number and a numeral. One is a permanent concept, the other a mere name for it. A number...
...Right, Dave. We stand at the blackboard of the Sixties with a clean slate, so to speak. Today is a divisional point, a change of trains, a time of stock-taking, of personal inventory, of renascent hope, of rededication, of crossing over, of escape from tedium...
...much the brightest part of the show. Despite some lively Ralph Beaumont dances, some pleasant Harold Arlen music and some neat touches in Morton Da Costa's direction, Saratoga has all the animation of a tableau and all the narrative interest of something written 50 times on a blackboard...