Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fails to utilize a valuable resource--mathematical background--that many of its students possess. Of fundamental importance in many fields of higher economics, mathematics can be successfully utilized at the elementary levels also. The department should set up special section within Ec 1 for those students with preparation in math...
Your Dec. 24 Swiss sixth-grade problem* was subjected to the combined efforts of an education senior, a business administration grad student, a pre-med student, and an English lit. major. After about six hours we made a frantic call to our favorite Ph.D. candidate in math. He was kind enough to tell us that our solution was the right one. Next time, could you publish a fifth-grade problem...
...school teaches everything from elementary reading and high-school math to such vocational subjects as typing and radio repair. Some students are practically illiterate; one lifer is a high-school graduate who wants a "refresher"; at least three have IQs of around 140. Some are so eager that they come to class after working at regular prison jobs from midnight to 8 a.m. No matter who they are, Gragert refuses to coddle them. He has set his standards so high that a diploma from the school will be recognized as the equivalent of one from any accredited Kansas high school...
...Harold L. Clapp, 47, professor of Romance languages at Iowa's Grinnell College, these two math problems illustrate a disagreeable point. Both come from texts used in the sixth grade. But the first is from an American book, the second from a Swiss. Clapp's point: through their "stranglehold on education," U.S. educational theorists have so diluted the aca demic content of the public school that it now lags far behind those in Europe...
Individual departments, for instance, often hire students to do typing and research. Math, Physics, and Gen Ed courses offer many positions for student graders to relieve some of the pressure from busy professors and section men. Lab assistants are needed in most of the science courses. At the Observatory a small group of students--some under Government contract--does computing. "Animal men" are used in the biology and Psycho-Acoustic labs for the care and feeding of laboratory animals, while others are employed as electronics technicians to build and maintain amplifiers and other equipment...