Word: math
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...explain such differences in ability, "people will point to Japan and say that Japanese children are in math class longer than American children, but that [assertion is] not really true," Gleason says. "If you look around a foreign country and ask parents what they think, they say that if you work hard, you can do math...
Gleason says that as the number of Americans who cannot perform higher math increases, the nation is put at risk--not only in terms of mathematical research, but also in terms of factory workers' ability to perform competently...
...Kids are coming out of school not knowing anything," he says. "The number overall is a small percentage of the population, but still it is disturbingly large. People in assembly line jobs at chemical plants and such are now needing extra training to deal with the math they need to just read the meter to see if the chemical is above the danger mark. There are too many of these people...
...Life of Math...
Gleason says he has been interested in math problems and numbers for as long as he can remember. "As a child, I had learned how to do long division and that kind of thing, but it was not something that I particularly enjoyed. I was fascinated, though, with some games my father used to play, which involved numbers and cards...