Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Math & Ticktacktoe...
...three hours they tackled questions for which none of them could have crammed. They matched pairs of words (POSSESS is to LOSE, as a) hesitate is to advance, b) cease is to recur, c) undertake is to perform, d) continue is to desist, e) produce is to supply); solved math problems and arranged given sentences into intelligible paragraphs ("a) Since his day it has undergone change, b) President James Monroe announced it in 1823. c) Its primary purpose, security for the Republic, has, however, remained the same, d) The Monroe Doctrine, one of the most famous statements of American foreign...
Thanks for the excellent eye-opening report. Just in 1949 (with a B.S. in physics and math), I found in many a fair-sized concern that the director of research was either nonexistent or at the very bottom of the administrative list. With sales managers near or at the top of the list, I went into sales. W. ROBERT MELZER Pittsburgh...
...John? As Beberman and Page see it, high-school math has sunk to its present state because students learn their theorems and formulas for an array of algebra problems ("If John is twice as old as Jane was four years ago . . ."), but never find out what makes the mathematician's brain work. In the hope of making arithmetic lively, some teachers insist on making each problem functional, as if there were nothing more to the subject than how to add up a grocery bill or compute compound interest. Such teachers completely misunderstand the adolescent, says Beberman. "The adolescent...
...large extent, Beberman and Page have cast aside the traditional tags (algebra, geometry, trigonometry, etc.) that tend to make math seem a series of separate and unattached compartments. "Frequently," says Beberman, "our students do not know whether they are doing geometry or algebra at any given point.'' But the basic intent is to reveal math as a "creative process in which we want our students to participate." Instead of telling students how to solve equations, "we just explain to them what the root of an equation is and then give them 30 pages of problems and tell them...