Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...numbers but with real objects, such as beads, stones, sticks. By manipulating objects in collections (or "sets") the child learns crucial ideas. He may be asked to remove pairs of objects from two collections, for example. When both collections run out at the same time, he begins to grasp the idea of equality. When one runs out first, he learns about inequalities...
Equal collections of different things bring up the idea of number as a common property of the sets; then the child can move on to grasp the symbolism of numbers expressed as numerals. He sees that for convenience the first ten symbols may be recombined for numbers greater than nine. He may also learn that each digit (say in 326) has a "place value" ten times that of its neighbor to the right (three hundreds, two tens, six ones). He discovers the wonder of that great ancient invention, zero, the "place holder" that allows infinite expansions (606 would be simply...
...society grows more complex, said the 19-member commission* in a 36-page report, the challenge is to free every American mind to cope and choose wisely. "A man is free in the degree to which he has a rational grasp of himself and his surroundings. The main restrictions to freedom are prejudice and ignorance. It is in this sense that a person without some degree of intellectual sophistication, though he may be free to think, speak and act as he pleases, is not free." And such freedom is "beyond the maturity attained by most adolescents." They need at least...
...grasp of the subject was so comprehensive, in fact, that the War Department drafted him in 1945 for a special mission with the secret Manhattan Project. It was Laurence's duty to write the story of the development of the Abomb, against the day when the Government could release...
...other hand, William Docken as her lover Hans was overly boyish in a part Giraudoux wrote to embody the tragic predicament of man. He didn't seem to realize why he loved Ondine and only at the very end of the evening, when he dies did he grasp the nature of his problem. Mr. Docken's limited supply of gestures proved to be a formidable handicap...