Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...real value of this or any testing data, "Richard Wood ward, assistant superintendent of schools, said last month." is to learn what we can do "Cambridge school principals and officials have noted that students throughout the system tend to meet the city's minimum standards in math, but fall far below in reading and writing. With this nationally noticed deficiency in students verbal abilities comes a more unusual figure, and one Cambridge may be able to do some thing about System wide fewer sixth graders met the competencies than either third or eights graders. And in all schools...
...Committee in the Mathematics Department his proposed specific revisions that seek level course and make some math offerings more applicable to students in related fields...
...Concentrators going straight from Math 55 to the 200-level courses--jumping directly into the abstraction--seemed to as a screwy way to do things," said Department Chairman David B. Mumford '57, a member of the eight-man committee...
...other problem the revision seeks to address in the accessibility and applicability of math courses to the intermediate level. Also Math "55, Advanced Calculus," would become Math 25. "Honors Intermediate Calculus and Linear Algebra," Which would have "the rigor without the abstraction, matching the preparation of students much better, explained Mumford...
...like New Mexico at all," she said. "It's lovely." Added her mother: "Oh, go there, dear. I'll go too." In Denver, Lawrence's admissions director, David Busse, quickly learned that one interested high school student, Robert Castaneda, was a trumpet player who also liked math and computers. Busse immediately told Castaneda about Lawrence's music conservatory, pointing out how students can explore two interests at his college: "The first-chair violinist of our orchestra is a biology major." When Castaneda's father asked about the school's computer program, Busse extolled Lawrence...