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Chairman of the Math Department Arthur M. Jaffe says that Gleason also gets undergraduates interested in math by promoting their participation in the Putnam Math Competition, a national math exam taken by the brightest young math scholars in the U.S. Gleason won the contest three consecutive times as an undergraduate...
...Harvard, Gleason was also the founder of the Core Curriculum's Quantitative Reasoning Requirement (QRR), a test on basic statistical and math abilities that all undergraduates must pass by the end of their freshman year. He currently serves as the QRR's chairman and as a representative to the Core's Board of Advisers...
When the Core and QRR were being formed, several math professors believed that all Harvard freshmen should be required to take basic calculus courses. Gleason instead decided about 10 years ago to focus the QRR on the numerical skills an average student would need to survive college-level courses...
...whole QRR singlehandedly," says Bott. "And while there are some of us who belong to the old school and feel all [students] should have to take calculus, we're very grateful for his new ideas, that he is concerned with those sides of math...
...responsible for determining what kinds of math and reasoning would need to be included on the QRR test," says Hughes Hallett. "He has been very important to people in math courses, but he's also been concerned with teaching math to people who are not concentrators as well...