Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tech Is Hell." Despite the fact that such imaginative teaching methods can often make fun out of the stiffest course, study at M.I.T. remains rigorous enough to satisfy the most demanding standards. M.I.T.'s freshmen are students who have ranked among the top 1½% on college board math exams; they must carry five subjects, including physics, chemistry and math. The lights in the rooms on M.I.T.'s 115-acre campus remain aglow far into the night, and the M.I.T. student slogan is both a boast and a sigh: "Tech is hell...
...means that (7) is a - of (1,3,5,7,9). Algebra Speedup. Theintervening 85 frames obviously carried the student a long way. Eigen and Teacher P. Kenneth Komoski did some pioneer math programing at Manhattan's Collegiate School, one of the oldest U.S. boys' schools, and in one case 74 students completed in two weeks a highly abstract algebra course that used to take more than two months. A programed course in logic at Hamilton College cut class time by one-third. At Columbia University, one student wrote a perfect.final exam after doing one term...
...questions right, skip the next 30"). Though Skinner's method may seem applicable only to fact learning (spelling, vocabulary, scientific terms), it" has already been used for everything from chess and chemistry to history, navigation and philosophy. It is also possible to program the new "concept" approaches in math and physics. The only real limitation is the programer's ability to analyze precisely how to define and achieve mastery of a subject. This seems to exclude creative arts and personal morality, but programers are an optimistic...
...help meet this new demand, the Mathematics Department will add one professor and Benjamin instructor to its faculty next year. attributes the remarkable to the "mounting interest in science in general and especially to awareness of the need for mathematics." Special courses and programs as Math for high attitude and tutorial for be enthusiasm for Mathematics at , he added...
...incidentally, the median scores of successful applicants are somewhat lower than popular conjecture has placed them. Although the College does not give out the medians as such, the application of a slide rule to the percentages provided producers the following "educated guesses": SAT verbal--695, SAT math--660, English Achievement--725. Nevertheless, test scores weigh heavily enough that the Committee places them at the back of each applicant's folder--where the reader will not see them until she has already formed a partial picture of the candidate in question. Moreover, the Committee is currently trying to arrive...