Word: math
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...panel found that the score decline was initially caused by a more socially varied group taking the SATs. In the 1960s there were "significant increases" in the number of women (who score lower in math), students from low-income families, and minority groups who began to take the tests. By the end of the decade of educational expansion, almost half of all students-compared with a third in 1964-were going on to college. Suddenly the SATs, traditionally taken by an elite college-bound group, broadened to include students entering community colleges and in general those with lower grades. Thus...
...gene-based view to humans. In part, that accounts for his rise?in just ten years ?from an author of children's texts to a biology guru at age 34. The son of a Foreign Service officer, Trivers entered Harvard on a scholarship in 1961 to study math and prepare for a career as a civil rights lawyer. He was a bright, moody, private person who turned up at all the civil rights demonstrations and student protests. But his marks were so mediocre ("I was more interested in chasing women and the real world than in math") that...
...program could be reformed. A stiff core curriculum could be introduced or all requirements could be abolished. The task force on core curriculum chose the first course. It proposed this past fall that all students should be required to pick one course out of eight offered in biology, physics, math, nonwestern cultures, modern social analysis and political and moral philosophy, and one out of 12 in western culture. Other recommendations include the abolition of the language requirement and continuation of an expository writing requirement...
Stable Introverts. One of Stanley's main disappointments is that for still disputed reasons, few girls test well on math (TIME, March 14). Those who do qualify for the special tutorials tend to drop out, and their feeling for the boys in the program is "almost one of revulsion," he says, because the girls view their male counterparts as socially immature. So far, he maintains, the boys seem to have few emotional problems. "Scientists are stable introverts," says Stanley. "They are not highly impulsive and tend to act rationally." Furthermore, he adds, it has been "demonstrated empirically" that mathematically...
Stanley's five Johns Hopkins protégés seem almost too dedicated to their calling. Spare-time reading tends toward math and science books, with a little science fiction thrown in for leavening. Favorite hobbies include, not surprisingly, chess and bridge. Stark and Camerer, however, seem drawn to nonscientific pastimes-Stark to softball and ragtime music on the trombone. Camerer to journalism. He has been writing stories about fashions and fishing for the Beachcomber, a free weekly published in Ocean City...