Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chair sits a senior from a suburban high school, full of new-won know-how in math, afire with the impulse to do something "meaningful." In the next chair sits a small slum kid, who flunked arithmetic in his big and unruly second-grade class last year. The kid needs some of what the senior has, and he's getting it. Such, in essence, is tutoring, this summer's nationwide channel for student idealism...
Surprisingly, only one winner will study medicine, but 31 plan to major in math, 13 in physics, seven in chemistry. In whatever field, the 121 honored teenagers prove that the country's "greatest resource" is a rich and varied lode...
...with a brain like this is awesome," says one teacher at Walnut Hills High. In free time, Dale programs computers at the University of Cincinnati's Kettering Laboratory ("It's just a job, really"). Dale took up astronomy at six, and his prime interest is "where physics, math and astronomy meet-cosmology, deep space distribution of matter." He hopes after Harvard to join NASA or become a research astronomer at an observatory in Australia or South Africa...
Londoner Gattegno, 54, who made a lot of money by introducing the Cuisenaire rods that help moppets to master math (TIME, Jan. 31), uses a rain-bow-hued set of word charts. They give each of English's 20 vowel sounds a color of its own. Thus the u in up is printed in yellow, and so are the identical-sounding o in done, oe in does, oo in blood. The o in no is tan, and so are seven other spellings that sound the same, like the eau in beau and the ough in though. There...
...CCCP recommended instead that the core consist of one year of a physics sequence and math sequence plus one half-year of chemistry. The student would then add to this by selecting "science area electives" and "elective laboratories...