Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...handful of mostly traditional sketches, long on premise and short on development. Guest Star Steve Martin (who can be funny just standing still) opened the show with some mincing mimickry of Michael Jackson's distinctive footwork. In one skit Jeff Goldblum (The Big Chill) played an earnest, geeky math teacher who yearned to belt out Tom Lehrer-like songs for the faculty talent show...
...hours, and advancing the age at which students can quit school from 15 to 16. Beginning next year, third-and sixth-graders will be required to take basic skills tests, and after 1987, eighth-graders will have to pass tests in subjects such as reading and math to enter high school. Some educators predict that the state will have to build as many as 2,500 classrooms and hire some 3,500 teachers over the next three years because of proposed changes...
...According to Jeffrey M. Rosen '86, co-chairman of the Academics Committee and one of two student representatives to the Standing Committee on the Core, a little known fact is that when the Core Program was originally outlined, there was to be a third Science subgroup, to include Math and Computer Science. But, says Rosen, "in all the politicking, the Science people lost out to the Humanitarians...
...Math and computer courses fulfill the Science "A" objective of courses to instill analytical and quantitative ways of thinking. The biggest stumbling block for including math and science courses might be that Science "A" purports to be limited to an examination of the physical world, as the course catalogue states. But problems dealing with the physical world--using calculus and computer functions--differ only semantically from the problem sets assigned in current Science "A" courses...
...fall of 1971, local papers were filled with speculation about who would replace retiring Harvard football coach John Yovicsin. Among those favored to win the job was a pro quarterback whose credentials included a Ph. D. in math...