Word: math
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more two-income families with no one to mind the children and?not least?less reverence for the written word. Concern about poor writing has turned up even at the best U.S. private schools. Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass whose standard curriculum includes three years of a foreign language, math up to calculus and intensive writing was driven by what Headmaster Theodore Sizer describes as the "video generation" to introduce an English competence course five years ago. In it, students are drilled in basic sentence structure four hours a week...
...Matthews are right about 75 per cent of the time when it comes to predicting the winning team, and beat the spread around 60 per cent of the time. Matthews began using the computer to make his predictions as a freshman, at the promptng of his father, a math professor at Lincoln Memorial University, who had been making football predictions for 25 years...
Some professional prognosticators such as Danny Sheridan claim psychic powers. A novel technique of predicting by using biorhythms is also gaining a foothold in the trade, but Matthews's advise to would-be soothsayers is: "You have to have a good math background, know what statistical methods are available and how to use them, and a high-speed computer." ZBIKOWSKI The Top Ten MATTHEWS 1. Texas 1. Texas 2. Ohio St. 2. Ohio St. 3. Notre Dame 3. Notre Dame 4. Kentucky 4. Kentucky 5. Penn St. 5. Michigan 6. Nebraska 6. Pittsburgh 8. Alabama 7. Alabama 9. Oklahoma...
...schools today. "The state of teaching is at best haphazard," says Sidlin, who taught in public schools for seven years and has subsequently entertained young audiences at over 350 youth concerts. "In some schools now they must justify retaining a music teacher by saying that songs help teach math or reading or science," he complains. "But what in the world is the matter with teaching music for music's sake...
...Principles of Economics"919 Hum 9a "Oral and Early Literature" 553 Astro 8 "Cosmic Evolution" 519 Nat Sci 110 "Automatic Computing" 502 Chem 20 "Organic Chemistry" 435 Fine Arts 13 "Introduction to the History of Art" 418 Nat Sci 6 "Organismic and Evolutionary Biology" 402 Math 1a "Introduction to Calculus" 381 Nat Sci 3 "Introduction to Chemistry" 339 Ec 1500 "Financial Accounting...