Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bill Stanley, Dave Beckman, Peter Palandjian won straight sets victors at second third fourth and sixth respectively while Darryl Laddin won a come form behind three set math at number five...
...honest If don't like math that much, and the Abstract, though it calls itself a great statistical undertaking, isn't really that at all. The book celebrates baseball and the obsession that some of us have with it, and does it with unusual wit and intelligence...
...Frey once drew near enough to Stan Musial to hear a definition of a doubleheader that stayed with him. "That's when Stanley can get ten hits in one day!" Musial exclaimed. "Think of it, ten hits!" On such optimum expectations, all Cubdom is founded, even in the after-math of three season-ending losses to San Diego last autumn, when a victory in any one would have won the pennant...
During the past year, Reed's whizzes have outscored California's top high school students in the U.S. International Chemistry Olympiad and won first place against U.S. junior highs in the National Language Arts Olympiad and the Atlantic-Pacific National Math Contest. Reed graduates have also won the Westinghouse Science Talent Search and the Churchill Fellowship to Cambridge University. Perhaps most impressive, Reed has compiled this enviable record using no extraordinary funding or trendy teaching gimmicks...
SIMULATION TRAINING. Educational software was once limited to electronic flash cards suitable for drilling students in math, spelling or Latin verbs. Now software writers are using the computer's capacity for simulating real-life situations to teach such subjects as anatomy and aviation. The method has proved particularly successful in the world of high finance. In Scarborough's Run for the Money ($80), PC users learn about business by competing in the market for synthetic bananas. In Harvard Associates' MacManager ($50), players run their own widget making companies. In Scarborough's Make Millions ($50), the simulation includes an office with...