Word: mathe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Math skills are down again
...have to print up enough tickets to admit 671 people to exactly 402 rock concerts. But the problem makes a point for the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a nonprofit organization, which included it, along with hundreds of others, in the latest N.A.E.P. survey of the nation's math skills, released last week. The point: as measured by tests given to a sampling of 71,000 U.S. students, math competence has declined in the past five years. The decline is notable among older pupils: scores of 17-year-olds dropped by 4%, 13-year-olds by 2%, and nine...
...test measured knowledge of math concepts, computing skills and the ability to think through problems. The assessment showed that the students have most difficulty with the reading and reasoning involved in word problems. About 60% of the teen-agers knew that the area of a rectangle equals its length times its width, and that the sides of a square are equal. But less than half of them could reckon the area of a square when the length of only one side was labeled. Two-thirds of the 13-year-olds could calculate the "distance around" a pictured rectangle with...
...will give no tests for mathematical disabilities when math courses are required under the Core Curriculum, Dinklage says. But Andrew M. Gleason, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, says the Math Department hasn't yet faced the question of dealing with students with mathematical disabilities, since the Core requirement will not take effect until next school year. Gleason says he does not expect this to be a great problem to the department, however...
...average SAT verbal score dropped two points to 427, and the math score dropped a single point...