Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hampshire math program, based in Amherst, is a six-week haven for high school students who believe that math is fun. Participants come to the program from all parts of the country with different backgrounds and different expectations; they leave with happy memories, a feeling of accomplishment, and a startling affinity for yellow pigs and the number...
...always gets up there and tells [Harvard coach] Billy Cleary that he doesn't want to hear his excuses about exams and tells Jackie Parker [of B.U.] that he once took a math course at B.U., and the first question on the final was; "How many holes are there on an 18-hole golf course?" says Read Oslin. Boston College's sports information director "None of it would be funny, but he gets up there and starts calling everyone an egghead, and with his delivery, he has everyone in hysterics...
...course, absurd; the North scored an important tactical victory by demonstrating the ability to stage attacks simultaneously in every important South Vietnamese city, and in any case went on fighting for some time thereafter. What the documentary failed to mention, however, was that the illogic of Westmoreland's math was known to the White House at the time. At a meeting of the "Wise Old Men," brought together to consider the implications of Tet in March 1968, former U.N. ambassador Arthur Goldberg pointed out the impossibility of the army's figures. U.S. leaders knew the information behind their Vietnam strategy...
...cube has been used to illustrate group theory in Harvard courses, but it has not been used as the basis for an entire course, David B. Mumford, professor of Mathematics said yesterday. "It could possibly be the germ for a math tutorial, though," Mumford added...
...believes that the $1 million spent in his state on college remediation should be recycled into high school programs. Says Brown: "Remedial courses sap the energy of the college and university faculty. We must say to the high schools that it really does matter how well the student learns math and English...