Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gleason says that the American public seems to be convinced that doing math--even something as simple as multiplying fractions--is a matter of ability and not of hard work...
...People seem convinced that being able to do math is having a style of thought which is conducive to math, " he says...
...Deborah Hughes Hallet felt that I didn't have a good idea of what students outside the math concentration were like and suggested that I teach some students who were taking math only as a requirement," says Gleason, who will be head tutor of the Math Department this spring...
...Math Ability...
...expect everyone to be into math, and certainly if everyone was excited about everything they did it would be strange, but a lot of students just really feel like they can't do math," he says. "And that...