Word: math
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...argue, students learn better through a gradual transition into English. That argument, however, has not been proved. A 1977 nationwide study of 150 schools and 11,500 students, conducted by the American Institute for Research in Palo Alto, Calif., found that bilingual programs helped children learn such subjects as math...
...Applied Math...
...Applied Math...
...know nothing about it, but I don't even like snow, a distaste that goes back to that afternoon in seventh grade when the class bully hit me in the nose with a snowball the size of a pregnant Swedish meatball because I wouldn't let him copy my math homework. I particularly don't like this snow. Now it's one thing for the snow to cause this week to be canceled. (It will be replayed at a later date). It's one thing for the snow to cause the hot water to be turned off. It's another...
...machinery with pickup trucks and boulders. They shove welding rods into the radiators of the power companies' tractors, sprinkle sand and gravel into gas tanks. Four masked men on horseback menaced one work crew; up to 100 chanting protestors have played "ring-around-the-tripod" to heckle surveyors. Math Woida, a Sauk Centre farmer, became a local hero by picking a particularly windy day to spread manure: the stuff was blown all over a survey crew and its truck. Unamused, the power companies have filed an excessive $500,000 suit for real and punitive damages against the farmer...