Word: math
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...once had a conversation with a Korean girl who verbally assaulted me for "repudiating" my heritage because I had chosen to write for a newspaper, not major in math or science, and not attend Korean student meetings. In a sense she was right, because those students who choose to pursue a more mainstream four years here end up leaving much of their ethnic heritage behind. People who want to become mainstream do not want to appear different to their peers, so they don't pursue ethnic contacts or activities...
Home: Sample went to four grade schools. One he left after a fight with a friend, which he now calls "stupid." One he left because the school had problems with fights, guns, knives, and gangs. One he left because of a feud with his math teacher. In sixth grade he transfered to a Roman Catholic school where on the first day the teacher gave the class a test on Roman numerals. Never having seen Roman numerals before, he scored a 57. Sample says with a grin that the teacher thought he was stupid and that she graded tests incorrectly...
That was perhaps the major impact of Richard Secord's testimony, which occupied the entire first week of public hearings by the joint congressional committee investigating the most explosive political scandal in a decade. Testifying primarily in the unemotional tones of a math professor but occasionally displaying flashes of deadpan wit and, under cross-examination, an acerbic temper, the retired Air Force major general described for four days how he organized and ran a private network that at the Government's behest secretly supplied arms to the contras in Nicaragua and later to Iran. Much of the story had been...
More than 3000 of the applicants had a 4.0 grade point average, and more than 6000 scored 700 or better on the math SAT. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY...
Mehl, who heads the Commission on Math and Sciences, proposed using the fund to develop a mathematics and science curriculum for South African secondary schools in collaboration with Ed School lecturer David Perkins, an expert in the field...