Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...solutions work well, but not quite well enough for today's high-power equipment. At Sandia Corp. in Albuquerque, Physicist Richard L. Davis was busy trying to devise improvements. One day he let his mind wander and remembered an old mathematical parlor trick, the Möbius loop. * Math suddenly merged with electronics, and Davis had what he was searching for: the design of a noninductive Möbius resistor...
Crucial Transformation. The council's most famous innovation is a comprehensive new math curriculum for kindergarten through sixth grade that is being taught this fall to 5,000,000 students in 50 states. Its newest change is perhaps its most crucial: transforming social studies from a dull memorization of unrelated facts, which has long been the scandal of grade-school education, to a lively, integrated understanding of the economic, political and historical crosscurrents that comprise U.S. democracy...
...framework for the social-studies reform, as for the math program, was built by leading university scholars brought to Cleveland for lengthy planning. Then the council's own staff of 30 professionals, working closely with local teachers, devised and frequently revised the texts, teaching aids and teacher-training courses. Last week 18,000 third-and fourth-graders and 1,000 teachers began working with the new program, which eventually will reach all of the council's 250,000 students through the twelfth grade...
...almost 300 upperclassmen, several of the grad students have been conducting special seminars in their respective fields, which range from harmony and math, through a variety of social sciences, to modern literature...
Barbara Danforth, 15, a Negro girl in the academically talented group at John Adams High School, helps to test a white boy in reading comprehension. Richard Malitz, 16, an eleventh-grade student at Shaker Heights High School who admits that he is "pretty good" in math and science, tests himself. "I think I want to be an engineer," he says, "but I wanted to try tutoring to see if I'd be fit for teaching instead...