Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most popular advanced standing major this year is Biochemistry, followed by Physics and Government. Last year, Physics was first, Biochemistry second, and Math third...
...suburban Chicago has a wellness program that allows faculty members to exercise on school time, receive personal and career counseling and even reduce their teaching loads without penalty. But such tender loving care is rare. "I don't think burnout is caused by the children," says Tracy Bridgers, a math teacher at Alexander Graham Junior High in Charlotte, N.C. "Usually it is the administration. No one strokes you enough...
...course, not everyone can have the impact of math teacher Jaime Escalante, the inspiring subject of the movie Stand and Deliver. But in small towns and sprawling cities there surely are people like him, each a miracle worker in his or her own way. Teachers say the best of them are born, not made. Perhaps they are right. Several years ago, Patrice Bertha took a sabbatical to see whether she really wanted to spend the rest of her life in the classroom. She wound up tutoring at home instead. "I really missed it," she says. "That's when I told...
Between 20 and 30 teams of four students each met at Western New England College in Springfield for the annual competition sponsored by the Association of Computing Machinery. In the contest, students tried to write computer programs in the computer language Pascal to solve seven math and programming problems. When the six-hour time limit expired, Harvard had successfully completed six of the problems; the second-place team had solved only four...
...prospective payoff: reading, writing and math test scores would rise 20% in five years, according to B.U. projections, bringing them in line with state averages. "Even if B.U. only accomplishes 50% of what it sets out to do," says Robinson, "we will be better...