Word: math
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Math la, "Introduction to Calculus," moved down a step from last year. The course has been completely reorganized, with teaching fellows having course assistants and the students meeting two more times a week for extra drills, Barry C. Mazur, professor of Mathematics, said yesterday...
...core curriculum would also stress "scientific literacy" but science courses would be taught in lay terms. Students could study ways in which scientists validate their discoveries or discuss the historical and social perspective of science. No mathematics requirement has been established yet, but some math instruction may be included in the science courses, Rosovsky said...
...because of below-average performance do not sit in their old classrooms while other classmates move ahead. They are assigned to new rooms and teachers, and usually grouped with children of similar ages, while they begin a special remedial course of study that focuses on basic reading, writing and math. The system also offers as a combined incentive and consolation something called "partial promotion." A student who has partially mastered third grade work, for example, may be half-promoted to a grade called...
...return of riot police or tear gas. A citywide Parent Advisory Council established by Federal Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr. has done much to defuse race tension. Another worry is low test scores. The national median on the Scholastic Aptitude Test is 429 on the verbal exam, 471 for math. Boston's white students are scoring 445 on the verbal and 464 on the math, blacks 331 on verbal, 339 on math...
...didn't know where she was politically. A black man from Michigan said, "I follow the same politics as may parents do--don't most people? I'm a Democrat." The same man said he wants to go to medical school, because "I'm interested in science and math, and also, I guess there's a lot of money in medicine." He said he is satisfied, so far, with relationships between blacks and whites at Harvard, and of the school itself, "It's beautiful. I really love...