Word: mathe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Richmond, a math whiz, happily noted that she has "known since eighth grade" that she wanted to attend Harvard, but Toulmin--an avid bellringer--simply said that she liked Cambridge better than New Haven, which she described as a "pit," and Brown, which she felt was "too Californian...
...forget that once she told the teacher you copied her math, and you exaggerate the fun times (so they choked the end of last season, the pitching is looking pretty good, especially Eckersley. This could be another...
...Yale math professor Serge Lang recently gave up a $30,000 National Science foundation summer grant because he refused to detail his activities on the so called "effort" forms reported the Yale Daily News Lang said the loss would affect only his standard of living, not his summer work...
...says Stanley, is "irrelevant" because it tests knowledge of mathematics rather than raw ability. He points out that the students were receiving geometry instruction at the time of the test. "What they've done," says Stanley, "is to show that when you teach boys and girls together in math classes, the girls learn quite well, and we've known that for 50 years...
While the critical volleys fly between Baltimore and Chicago, some educators believe that both sides are missing the real target. University of Wisconsin Professor Elizabeth Fennema, who has been studying sex-related differences in math for twelve years, maintains that most female mathematical disabilities result from environment. Says she: "Neither study has collected a bit of data on the genetic evidence. Neither is measuring innate ability." She discourages debate over mathematical genetics, since she believes it is insoluble and burdens one sex with an implied deficiency for which there is no remedy. Indeed, the researchers agree on one important fact...