Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pioneering program launched two years ago at the Graduate School of Education to ease the critical shortage of math and science educators in this country will embank next fall on a new project to make mathematics more appealing to secondary school students...
...Midcareer Math and Science Program, designed to retrain midcareer profession as math and science teachers, received founding two weeks ago for the new program with a grant of over $500,000 from the National Science Foundation...
Local junior high school teacher will be the prime participants in the few program, intended to develop more interesting math and science curricula by emphasizing the practical applications of those fields in business and industry...
...With more interesting curricula, more students may be interested in business and educational careers that involve math and science," said Merseth, who has authored several math textbook...
...perfect: easy if you know your algebra (the answer: 3), hard if you don't, and about a 50% guessing shot for Joe, whose chances may be reduced by a deceptive, tempting answer that E.T.S. calls a "distractor." A typical distractor in the stickier part of a math section was set up by this question: A literary agency's editors read 4 out of every 20 scripts submitted. What is the ratio of unread to read scripts? The nice, easy-looking distractor, 5:1, is sitting right there for Joe to get burned on, and usually he does. The correct...