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...slide rule" calculators (which include trigonometric and exponential functions), just as they would have used their own traditional slide rules a few years ago. A few school systems, however, have begun to supply and use calculators in an organized way. Three junior highs and one elementary school in Cupertino, Calif., have been using 15 calculators as standard equipment in math classes since September. In Math Teacher Barbara Good-son's classes, pupils share the devices on regular assignments during one or two periods a week. Says Goodson: "Kids who weren't all that eager to come to math...
Wrong Answers. The Cupertino program is part of an experiment designed by Educational Consultant Wallace Judd, which involves 1,400 students in 14 junior highs in four cities from Harrisburg, Pa., to San Francisco. Judd stresses that students in the program must be able to formulate a problem before they go to work on a calculator. "A calculator won't give you a wrong answer to a computation," says Judd, but it will give you a wrong answer if the problem is set up incorrectly...
...Savings. Indeed, school and police authorities blamed the darkness, in part, for a number of motor-vehicle accidents involving children, including a 16-year-old boy in suburban Chicago, run over en route to school. Californians were chilled by the brutal rape of a 16-year-old girl in Cupertino, who was attacked as she crossed a vacant lot on her way to school. Most schools found it impossible to adjust their hours because of union contract rules, the after-school commitments of school bus drivers and inconvenience to working parents. Thus, many school authorities recommended that children wear light...
Democrat Dan Cupertino, county board supervisor, expresses frustration...
...abnormal is, in fact, normal when it comes to weather. What was unusual was the occasional attempt to do something about it. In the San Francisco area, where rainfall has been twice as heavy as usual and houses have started to slide down green hillsides, the Cupertino city council passed a resolution: "Without intending to interfere in the overall plan of things as envisioned by the Deity, the city council of Cupertino does hereby proclaim that there shall be no more rainfall within the city limits during the remainder of March 1973." Man proposes, God disposes: a few days later...