Word: math
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only slightly stained with lipstick). Sister, browsing in the Teen Scene department, was staring with fascination at a pair of earrings she might just forget to pay for, if no one was going to be looking too hard. Sonny was in school, doing pretty well on a math test by dint of some judicious copying from a friend's paper. And Dad was busy at the office, adding a few fictitious lunches to his expense account and wondering about the feasibility of his company's renting another suite in Miami to be written off as a business expense...
...Dean E. Laurence Chalmers is confident that the clustering will lead to "greater student rapport and a greater commitment to learning," because that is what happened to students in a trial run last year. Without advance word to anyone, university officials "block-registered" 30 freshmen in English, math, history and social-science classes, just to test the idea. Students quickly caught on, dubbed themselves "the group," got together for pizza parties and bowling. The teachers spontaneously coordinated assignments so that an English essay, for example, would deal with an idea being developed in a math class. They also compared notes...
...students at 192 elementary schools, who were tested on such basic skills as reading and arithmetic. Except for an unexplained lag in second grade, the students scored well above the national averages. Similarly, seniors in 41 Catholic high schools did better, as a group, in language, social studies, math and science than the national norm...
...LODIE DU BONHEUR (RCA Victor). Tourists who happened to catch the movie version of Sound of Music in France heard this soundtrack and thought they'd tumbled onto Soeur Sourire. Not so. It is Mathé Altéry being the voice of Julie Andrews-and she isn't very far removed...
...Kenya, 22 American mathematicians are hard at work on a project into which the U.S. AID agency has poured a million dollars. Their quarters are in a white stucco hotel overlooking the deep blue of the Indian Ocean, and their job is to help African countries prepare modern math textbooks. Said William Martin, 55, of M.I.T., the head of the workshop: "Don't go thinking the sponsors aren't getting their pound of flesh." His wife echoed this sentiment by describing a dance at the hotel: "There were the locals twisting and smooching in the moonlight. But where...