Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps the happiest of Stanford's new captives is Yale's Edward G. Begle, 46, a math professor and father of seven who once spent his days hammering topology into graduate students and his nights wrestling with juvenile homework. The nights were worse than the days. When Daughter Sally bogged down in percentages, Papa Begle blew up. Sally's math book explained percentages three ways without touching on the common principle. "It was dull, terrible, uninteresting," growls Begle. "It was so revolting that I had to do something...
What sad-eyed Professor Begle (pronounced beagle) did was to become the foremost disseminator of math reforms in U.S. schools. As director of Yale's School Mathematics Study Group. Begle, in 1958, began a rewriting of textbooks that has since enlightened Sallys across the nation. As one consequence, Stanford stole Sally's father from Yale. Stanford now aims to Beglize itself as "a national center in mathematics education...
Nonetheless, innovations and reforms abound as the year begins. New ways of teaching science, math, reading and foreign languages will reach more youngsters than ever. From noon seminars to Saturday morning classes, more time will be spent at studies. TV teaching will reach nearly half the classrooms in California. In six Midwest states, two DC-6 airplanes will beam taped lessons to earthbound schools under the Ford Foundation-financed Midwest Program on Airborne Television Instruction, which by June may reach 2,000,000 students...
Then Sahl claimed that he had once taught college math, and, as a blackboard illustration of the differences between the exact and inexact sciences, "I drew a woman on a couch, and I explained to the class that in mathematics you moved across the couch and got the girl. In philosophy you never reached her; and in psychology, you discovered she wasn't the right girl for you anyway...
...long been torn between his scientific talents and a burgeoning humanitarian impulse. Son of a semiskilled truck-plant laborer. Honore was the first Negro to be elected student-body president at Capital University, a Lutheran school in a suburb of Columbus, where he got his B.S. in physics and math. A 1959 trip to Castro's Cuba in a National Students Association delegation was an eye-opener: "I saw these people in the rural areas living under the most adverse conditions while the rich in the cities lived in luxury." He will suspend his Ph.D. work at Ohio State...