Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...should have a comprehensive understanding rather than competence in one narrow field led at Harvard to the establishment of courses aiming to provide that understanding. Unfortunately, these courses have become increasingly specialized and irrelevant to the proper concerns of students: it is mere wishful thinking to suppose that a math major can achieve a liberal education by taking a course on painting in Renaissance Italy and one on prison reform...
...some courses, like plebe (freshmen) Math, the Cadets are graded daily, and in all classes, lists ranking the students in order of performance are posted monthly. Where the student sits in the classroom is determined by his monthly rank. No one even considers cutting classes at West Point. The students time up outside the classrooms before entering to facilities attendance taking, and the sight of a halfway-in a classroom building filled with line upon line of uniformed Cadets is a strange one for a civilian getting his first look at the Point...
This learning, which lasts all year round, includes both religion and black heritage, but the emphasis is on relentless drill in reading and math. "We're preparing them for predominantly white high schools," says Clements. "They won't be getting ghetto tests there." The school's stern discipline includes even paddling as a last resort. So while classes in neighborhood public schools are frequently disrupted by unruly children, the Holy Angels are serene. Explains Sixth-Grader Diamian Bellamy: "If you shoot spitballs in class or throw trays in the cafeteria like you do in public school...
...maps; a Florida-based jet pilot keeps his in the cockpit to reckon flight times. But the calculators became a sales sizzler only when general consumers, once again proving their fascination with small electronic gadgetry, decided that they would also make handy checkbook balancers, income tax figurers and math-course timesavers. About half a million mini-calculators have been sold in the past year, and the total is expected to grow to 3,000,000 units...
Tutor Award program science and math tutoring at Bureau of study counsel Adams house committee social chairman Organized Adams house café Organized House Activities Including Oktoberfest, St. Pat's Celebration the Raff Race...