Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expected to know more than calculus," he added, "but the more math you know, the more it helps...
...many worried parents, the new math-new methods teaching that swept public schools in the '60s made about as much sense as Lewis Carroll's Turtle. When they complained that children were no longer learning basic reading, writing and arithmetic, however, no one listened. Until, that is, test scores began plunging, and legislators and officials discovered that the supposed mess in public education could be a dangerous political issue...
Once a state has ratified minimal competency testing, however, the rhetoric ends and the problems begin. Foremost among them: What constitutes "functional literacy"? Should only reading and math be tested? Or should the exams include such "survival skills" as how to balance a checkbook or read a road map? Should standard statewide exams, which might be biased against, say, inner-city children, be used? Or should individual tests be developed by local school districts...
Numbers are supposed to tell the story at MIT, and indeed they did last night as Harvard's squash team gave the Engineers a math lesson in lopsided scores...
Fish's squad continued its vicious math lesson right down the line. John Havens at number two, Mark Panarese at three, Ned Bacon at four, and Ken Ehrlich at five, downed their opponents by an average point score of 45 to 21.75 (if my roommate Bill's Texas Instruments calculator is to be trusted...