Word: mathes
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When I retired from teaching in 1973, the new math had already begun to destroy the teaching of algebra. In the dim period that followed, I kept hoping for something like the new textbook written by John Saxon [Dec. 21]. Unfortunately, it is too late for some of the misled students of the '70s who are not able to deal with complexities such as filling in Form 1040. For today's students, the Saxon book spells a renaissance...
...vast public university system has sent a warning letter to the parents of all the eighth-grade students in the state: "Your son or daughter," it declares, "should be expected to enroll in an English class every semester of every year and most students should be taking a math class every semester." U.C. Administrator Henry Alder stresses that low performance in high school could prove hazardous to college aspirations. Reason: by the fall of 1984 the state's 19 colleges and nine universities plan to toughen entrance requirements. The most dramatic new demands will occur at the state college...
California is not the only state system toughening up its entrance requirements. Next fall Florida State University will demand that freshmen graduate from high school with a 2.5 grade-point average (as compared with 2.0 now) and score a total of 950 (compared with 800) on the combined math and English Scholastic Aptitude Tests. Ohio State University, which since 1902 has guaranteed entrance to any Ohio high school graduate, will now accept unconditionally only students who have completed a college-preparatory curriculum that includes four years of English and three of math, science and social studies, plus a foreign language...
...Georgia's 33 institutions of higher education, more than $6 million was spent this year on "developmental studies," the pedagogical euphemism for remedial training. At Ohio State University, 42% of this fall's entering freshmen were required to take at least one remedial course in English or math. Ohio's total remediation tab last year: between $10 million and $12 million. Says Elaine Hairston, director of special programs for the Ohio Board of Regents: "Students who need remedial work need specific help. To be done right it requires one-to-one tutoring and low-student-ratio labs...
...processional,/ Step into that small confessional,/ There the guy who's got religion'll/ Tell you if your sin's original." There was a time (circa 1955) when The Vatican Rag caused frissons and merriment all around the campus- circuit. Songwriter Tom Lehrer was a Harvard math professor who could do numbers on anything from sex to the Bomb. But satire is a parasitical art, no stronger than its host. Folk singers, the. military, Freud and faith, all have been familiar targets for over a generation. Today Tomfoolery, a chrestomathy of 28 Lehrer hits, seems about...