Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tests given by all branches of service. While most questions asked on such tests are elementary, and some are so mechanical that no preparation is possible, a few hours refresher is "Ratio and Proportion Problems" or "Graph and Chart Analysis" shouldn't hurt the AGCT score of any non-math concentrator. And then there are those exasperating "Cube Counting" and "Cube Turning" problems which some pre-test practice would make slightly less nerve-shattering...
Another familiar figure, perspiring away the pounds, is last year's captain and first baseman, Johnny Caulfield. Caulfield is teaching math at Rindge Tech and hopes to step into an open baseball coaching job there...
...third place is Math 1b with 408 students. Social Science 2 ranks fourth with 395. In fifth and sixth place are Government 1b and Social Relations 1b with 394 and 382 students respectively...
From now on, said he, Denver high schools will require 20 semester hours of English (double the old number), 10 more hours of math, 10 of U.S. history. As for Denver's required classes in "general education"; hereafter, students can take them or leave them alone...
Denver schoolmen decided to give 4,672 of the city's high-school students a battery of tests to find out whether the protesters knew what they were talking about. Last week the schoolmen admitted that, to a certain extent, the protesters did: in math problems the pupils scored three points below the national average, were little better in spelling; almost all were weak in grammar. Superintendent Kenneth Oberholtzer (TIME, Feb. 20) decided standards needed tightening...