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Corporate Production Director: Martin J. Gardner...
Corporate Production Director: Martin J. Gardner...
STILL, the balloons bounce on. After an introduction to Cafe Ole, the action moves to a living room done in Italian kitsch, with marble busts of pizza chefs. Gangleader Don Ianmarie (Andrew Gardner '89) attempts to allay his Italian mama's concerns with some of the evening's best lines, "Mama mia, calzone, Lamborgini, genitalia, guapo..." He explains that her lust for fine cuisine was handed down from "Grandpapa Domino" and "Great Aunt Regina...
Corporate Production Director: Martin J. Gardner...
...Gardner, an author of books and essays on math, also puts much of the blame on teachers -- particularly at the elementary level, where many classrooms are run by people with little or no math training. "When a class is taught by a teacher not interested in the subject," he notes, "then the class is bored also." Another setback for numbers proficiency, Gardner argues, was infatuation with the new math that emerged during the 1950s. Says he: "Youngsters were learning all kinds of advanced things, but not basic math...