Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Years Old. With the help of Reed College, Portland has been holding such classes for its gifted pupils since 1952. The program is so successful that last fall some teachers finally asked Math Supervisor Lesta Hoel: "Why can't we have a class in modern math for teachers too?" The teachers decided that they and some youngsters should learn together under five Reed-trained instructors, and Supervisor Hoel even joined the class herself. Research in mathematics, she explains, has advanced so rapidly that today's teachers are now way out of date. "We're using in geometry...
...points out that about a third of the undergraduates now concentrate in the natural sciences, that these departments also have the largest number of graduate students, and that Math 1 is one of the largest courses in the College...
Professor Howard Fehr, head of the mathematics department at Columbia Teachers College, is generally an amiable man. but he can become blunt when talking about the abuse his subject takes in the average U.S. school. "The mathematical education of most math teachers," says he, "ends in the ninth grade.'' They teach arithmetic as if it involved nothing more than totting up grocery bills or figuring compound interest, completely fail to give their pupils any glimpse into the concepts that lie behind the subject. Last year Fehr took on the job of collaborating with TV Producer Richard Pack...
General stiffening of curriculum seems a more practical suggestion. "Too many people turn away from science and engineering in college because they feel so unprepared in math and basic science," Grayson Kirk observed. "Given opportunities for choice, children may take easier subjects...
...Slavic Department may offer a non-intensive course in beginning Russian next year, according to Albert B. Lord '34, chairman of the Slavic Department. Lord said that such a course is being considered in response to interest expressed "especially by students in Math and the sciences" who would like to read Russian scientific publications...