Word: math
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...People think you have to know how to speak Pascal to get along at Dunster. Well, it's just not true! (Cobol or binary are helpful, though.) There is a little bit of the science-math stereotype, but no one type is prevalent here...
...There are a lot of musicians, science majors, and math majors. Dunster, however, throws awesome parties. If you like diversity, Dunster has it. As for stereotypes, we have Pioneer, Nakamichi, Yamaha...all sorts...
...Teachers in] math and science are always the greatest shortage because industry recruits them. But now there is a shortage [of high school teachers] in almost every area," Carroll says...
...classes where teachers focus on presenting concepts and working out problems, such as in chemistry and math, "they must make the structure of the presentation clear. Do students know where its going? Are they thinking actively? Are they working with the information and not just recording it down on their notebooks? Is the teacher working with students' approach to solving problems, or is he oblivious...
...admission to a service academy. "In high school he paid a lot of attention to academics because he knew that was the best way to get in," recalled his older brother Pat. Said Curtis Lancaster, Smith's football coach at Beaufort: "He always worked particularly hard at science and math because he knew he needed that for what he wanted to do." Smith graduated with honors, was voted Most Outstanding Senior by his classmates and won appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. He became a pilot and won a chestful of medals during the Viet Nam War. Smith...