Word: mathe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...children remain cooperative and orderly, observing the rule that no more than two can leave their desks at once. Mrs. Lundberg, who has taught for 16 years in one-room schools, has altered her methods little during that time, and doubts the value of such trends as new math and language techniques. "We prefer the traditional methods," she says. "The only technique is good planning...
...manner of emotional, racial, tribal and religious elements were introduced into what once was a relatively tidy equation. The new math of the U.N. involved sets and subsets incomprehensible to minds raised in the school of Big Power politics. At the same time, the cold war had also changed. Said Dean Rusk: "The cobweb syndrome, the illusion that one nation or a bloc of nations could, by coercion, weave the world into a single pattern, is fading into limbo...
...Math-ow) may sound familiar, but, despite 21 movies, 21 Broadway plays and 158 TV shows, it is mostly just something dimly recalled from the grey of the co-credits. But no more. Because Playwright Neil Simon knew him, ad mired his work, and wrote the role specifically for him, Matthau, 44 is now starring in Broadway's new smash comedy The Odd Couple (TIME, March 19) and he is so belly achingly funny as a loutish sportswriter that no one will ever forget him again...
...everybody is always dreaming up ways to spend money. Some people want us to buy good chalk for the blackboards; some want us to buy more than one copy of frequently used books for the math library. And, would you believe it, one boy once asked me why we sell the mimeographed lecture notes. He thought students should get them free. Rank socialism! Besides, with the high salaries we pay our teaching fellows, we can't afford anything...
...this point, the phone rang, and I felt so sorry for the poor secretaries that I decided to write the CRIMSON and ask people not to call the math department...