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...scores across the country to abstruse textbooks written in the name of the New Math by "arrogantly inept" mathematicians who do not teach beginners. Like many other classroom algebra teachers, he found that such textbooks emphasize mathematical theory at the expense of practice and are usually written in baffling jargon. Emphasis is placed on rapid exposure to many "topics," or procedures. Before students can master one topic, explains Saxon, they must move on to a new one. The great sin, he insists, is that the books teach abstract theory first and skills second-the reverse of the order in which...
...house that is prettier than the neighbors'. In Hegewisch, an industrial suburb of Chicago, one prideful owner < grafted some unlikely fieldstone siding and a bow window on a two-story cottage. Not too far away, in Chicago itself, a small house was rusticated, to use architects' jargon, by applying synthetic stone siding to the entire facade. The result was not unlike that of an Alpine goat-herder's hut. Archie Bunker may seem like a conformist, but he is, a heart, an individualist who rebels against uniformity not of his own making. He considers it his right...
Hofstadter, a computer scientist, and his collaborator Daniel C. Dennett, a philosophy expert, avoid technical jargon and esoteric language throughout the book. Hofstadter is, or course, well practiced at writing for the layman; he authors a regular column in Scientific American and won a Pulitzer Prize for his book, Godel, EScher, and Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid. Working with Hofstadter, Dennett--author of Branistorms:- Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology--expands on his own explanations of artificial intelligence, computers and the unity or divisibility of the soul...
...legal jargon she is called Baby Girl, Alien No. A21324657. The day after she was born to a Mexican mother in a Tijuana hospital, she was carried away by an American couple. Adopted, say the couple; kidnaped, says the mother. In the six years since then, a bitter, tangled legal battle has been fought over the custody of the bright and friendly child, piling up proceedings in seven U.S. courts alone and calling for Solomonic choices between two families, two nationalities, two cultures...
...like a plane. This week the U.S. space agency is engaging in quite another sort of test. Flying "upside down" high above the earth, Columbia will try out a $100 million, Canadian-built "arm in space." Unless the Remote Manipulator System, as the huge skyhook is called in NASA jargon, really works, the shuttle will be unable to perform one of its key roles in space: to place satellites into orbit and retrieve them when they fail...