Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Economics 1 is the most popular elective course given this term, with Math 1b and Government 1b closely following in second and third places...
Courses are no longer rigidly restricted to subject: they can and do roam into many other fields. "Nowadays," says Assistant Superintendent Roy Hinderman, "history teachers teach spelling, biology teachers teach spelling, and spelling teachers teach spelling." But such matters as spelling, or math, or writing, are only the beginning. Taken alone, they are, insists Kenneth Oberholtzer, just "silo education, or storing up facts." Subjects must be related to each other and to life around them. What good is history, the educators ask, unless it is tied in with current events, or with what's going on in Denver...