Word: math
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Although the mathematics requirement of the Core Curriculum will not go into effect until 1980, the Math Department will give achievement tests to students who volunteer to learn the quantitative skills the Core will require...
Although the subcommittee is still discussing the final structure of the tests, Gleason said he envisions four kinds of math skills in the requirement: graphing and manipulation of functions, basic computer programming, elementary statistics and use of data...
Students who do not feel they can learn on their own or who have not passed all the tests after a certain time period will take a basic math course the department will provide...
Gleason said that although he thinks current high school math programs provide very few entering freshmen with the skills needed to pass all parts of the requirement upon entering Harvard, he expects "about 80 per cent can get squared up without taking a regular course...
...that love is cruel. This insight came when Miss Witzman, homeroom teacher and object of my lust, announced her intention to marry at year's end. Marry someone other than me, that is. I learned the second thing when fractions wormed their incomprehensible way into my arithmetic textbook. Math...