Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...known Oklahoma City University. Under "The Great Plan," as O.C.U. proudly calls it, M.I.T. will completely revamp the school's curriculum. Supervised by five M.I.T.-recruited professors, O.C.U. next fall will put about 25 bright freshmen in an honors program of high-caliber English, foreign languages, physics and math. By the time the program spreads to all students, O.C.U. hopes to be producing education that matches M.I.T...
Triangles & TV. The council's first job is to revamp math teaching for 100,000 youngsters from first through eighth grade. The basic idea is to make math fascinating instead of a drudgery. First-graders use Tinkertoy-type men with wooden "fingers" to play variations on a theme of ten. Mental arithmetic encourages fast shortcutting. Algebra's inscrutable x's and y's become inviting squares and triangles that cry to be filled...
...system across to teachers, the council persuaded commercial station KYW-TV to take Dave Garroway off the air for half an hour one morning a week and let Math Professor Bernard Gundlach lecture to 2,000 teachers. KYW's Garroway fans howled (phoned one irate viewer: "What's that clown doing on the air?"), but the teachers think it is great. An hour before the kids arrive, teachers gather around school TV sets as Gundlach demonstrates the new approach to math. By lunchtime, many have put the ideas into practice...
...mediocre. At New York City's Andrew Jackson High School. Rickey Field, 18, was accepted by Harvard, Princeton and Columbia, but turned down by the University of Michigan. At New York's Riverdale Country School, James Avary, 18, applied only to Princeton. His College Board English and math aptitude scores averaged only 580 (out of a possible 800), but he was accepted...
...Bill Ohle, 358th in a class of 898, had aptitude scores of 673 (verbal) and 629 (math). He lettered twice in cross-country and track, was an Eagle Scout...