Word: mathe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Extended-Day Program allows students and their parents in three junior highs to attend voluntary courses at night. Their interests determine the classes offered, which range from sewing to remedial math and business-school English. Teachers hoped to get 100 volunteers, were startled when 500 turned out at each school...
...statistician, he specializes in the laws of probability. As a cabaret performer, he defies them. For when Satirist Tom Lehrer "retired" from show business in 1960 to return to math and Harvard, he deliberately buried his alter ego-and, it seemed, any chance of a comeback. Many fans even believed widespread reports that he had killed himself. Instead it was Lehrer who was slaying the customers last week at San Francisco's hungry i, where he proved to be the nightclub's biggest draw since the Limelighters played there...
...biggest building in town. Five teachers taught grades one through eleven, carrying two or three grades each. Lyndon helped sweep the floor and stoke the potbellied wood stove. His favorite subjects, largely because of the able teacher, Superintendent Scott Klett, were civics and history. "I didn't like math or science much," says Johnson...
...More math and statistics are required almost everywhere-the colleges' big response to computers. M.I.T. requires applicants for its master's degree in industrial management to have college calculus before they start. Carnegie Tech students not only learn how to program computers but practice using them to solve business problems; less technical universities, such as Chicago, teach what computers...
...impossible to live in China for five years without picking up many Chinese social values. Waste of any kind is one of the worst sins there; math problems frequently take the form: "If every Chinese wasted one grain of rice each day and each grain of rice weighs one gram...." I learned to write on both sides of scratch paper before throwing it away and to use pencils until I could barely hold them. We always ate everything off our plates including the crust of rice around the edge of a bowl...