Word: fehr
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Professor Howard Fehr, head of the mathematics department at Columbia Teachers College, is generally an amiable man. but he can become blunt when talking about the abuse his subject takes in the average U.S. school. "The mathematical education of most math teachers," says he, "ends in the ninth grade.'' They teach arithmetic as if it involved nothing more than totting up grocery bills or figuring compound interest, completely fail to give their pupils any glimpse into the concepts that lie behind the subject. Last year Fehr took on the job of collaborating with TV Producer Richard Pack...
Last week Fehr and Pack had every reason to believe that they had a hit. From everyone from M.I.T. Mathematician W. T. Martin ("an imaginative presentation") to U.S. Education Commissioner Lawrence G. Derthick ("one of the best current films on mathematics"), the compliments poured in. But Professor Fehr and Producer Pack had one word of warning. The series is in no way meant to be a "course" in mathematics, but "a kind of mathematical hors d'oeuvre, an appetizer, a stimulant...
...present high school curriculum in mathematics," said Howard F. Fehr of Columbia Teachers College, "is outmoded, oriented to 19th century mathematics and physics," and completely fails to relate what it teaches with the total structure of modern mathematics. "Any 17th century mathematician, reappearing upon earth today, could enter most classrooms in our high schools and, without any preparation, teach the present traditional curriculum, so far is it behind the times...
...Captain Ted Cooney goes, so goes the varsity golf team, at least that's what Yale's 5-2 victory over the Crimson last Friday would indicate. The senior captain, playing his last match against the Elis, lost to his New Haven counterpart and three-year rival, Captain Jerry Fehr, 1-up in a match which was undecided until the 18th holo...
Cooney (shown at left watching Fehr swing his driver) has lost to the Eli four times over the past three years. His only other dual-meet defeats this season were at the hands of Holy Cross and Boston College, when the team also lost. Both players finished Friday with identical 74 scores...