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...intimidate math phobics.” Instead, Livio is trying to entice lay readers to crack open his book and appreciate the “omnipresence and omnipotent powers of mathematics.” Its focus is the impressive notion that “the same global, coherent mathematics?? can be used by a wide variety of scientists, engineers, economists, and doctors to explain such seemingly divergent topics as factory efficiency and the structure of the universe. Livio attempts to account for these seemingly unrelated applications of math by creating an historical narrative about how mathematicians throughout time...
...comments at a School Committee meeting yesterday highlighted the conflicting and often-incongruent evaluation schemes imposed by the state and federal governments. All Massachusetts high school students are required to take the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) tests and pass both sections—English Language Arts and Mathematics??in order to graduate. The flaw in the MCAS system, according to Fowler-Finn, lies in the retest for students who initially fail the exam. Tenth-graders who score below the passing level of 220 points on the MCAS when it is first administered can retake the test twice...
...Cambridge Rindge and Latin, the city’s only public high school, posted a 20-point increase in its English test scores and a 19-point increase in mathematics??results that have caused many in the community to rally behind Fowler-Finn...
...economics. It is difficult to see how a general education curriculum will prepare “students to be citizens of a democracy within a global society” without giving them a basic understanding of markets. The lack of emphasis in the report on the hard sciences and mathematics??a student could conceivably graduate barely having glanced at any numbers—also raises grave concerns, as these subjects are becoming increasingly applicable. While general education should not be pre-professional, allowing students to graduate from college in the contemporary world without receiving any rigorous, post-secondary...
...alone is not a worthy career. Second, administrators insist, control of the curriculum should rest only with tenured professors, the most accomplished scholars in a given field. This should largely continue to be the case. But in many fields, lecturers teach longstanding curricula—such as in introductory mathematics??or deftly tweak them to fit their own needs—such as in expository writing. After all, Harvard already allows preceptors to serve as primary instructors in the foreign languages, mathematics, and expository writing. There exists no plausible defense for not keeping the best ones around...