Word: math
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Also, students must take two half courses from the list described in A2 above. Other courses, such as ones drawn from Math and Statistics, might prove appropriate...
...research proposal to the CIA drafted by Anthony G. Oettinger, professor of Linguistics and Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Math. According to Oettinger, the proposal--a public document--was a request for a CIA grant to conduct technical research involving cathode ray tubes...
...elementary school that was started in 1966 with support from the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Office of Economic Opportunity, but has an all-Navaho school board with total administrative authority. At Rough Rock, students learn Navaho language and history, along with such standard subjects as English, math and science. Medicine men come to the dormitories in the evening to tell tribal folk tales and legends. The Navaho's focus on family ties is never forgotten, and children are allowed to go home whenever their parents wish...
...Each number following the first 1 consisted of the sum of the two previous numbers. Fibonacci attached no great significance to the sequence, and it was generally ignored through the years by all but dedicated mathematicians. Then, in the early 1960s, Brother Alfred Brousseau, who teaches math at St. Mary's College near San Francisco, became interested in the numbers and their applications. "We got a group of people together in 1963," he says, "and just like a bunch of nuts, we started a mathematics magazine." The Fibonacci Quarterly ($6 per year) has survived and-in an academic sort...
...other hand, it might be advantageous in some courses to take the examination several months after the course has finished. A Math 105 instructor once told his section that he would like to give the exam in the course at the end of the following semester, or even a year later. It took, he thought, that long for your mind to digest the material and accept, on the level of faith, the concepts he was trying to put across. The same is true of other courses, and the student should have the right to adjust his test-taking...