Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said Colin Rizzio, the New Hampshire teenager who gained national notoriety last week for correctly observing that one of the October SAT math questions was flawed. The uncomfortable nudge Rizzio gave the Educational Testing Service serves as more than a minor corporate embarrassment...
...also testifies to the limitations and fallibilities of any system that purports to be an absolute test of ability. Colin Rizzio scored (before the mistake was discovered) a 750 on the math exam. Indubitably, a small number of students in the country did even better than that. Does the fact that they were better able to answer the formulated questions prove they are more intelligent? Or does the fact that Rizzio had the intellectual flexibility to understand not only how to find the answer to a question, but to intuit how it was designed to work, suggest something...
...first place to start with is the Admissions Committee. Harvard is simply taking too many rocket scientists who speak 12 languages and win math competitions in their free time. While it's important that Harvard maintain academic integrity and not start taking knuckle heads, it's essential that the Admissions Committee realize that Harvard sports are in jeopardy of falling apart...
...standard bearers of the computer revolution, the techies who run America Online have a pretty shaky grasp of basic math. Let's see: you're the most successful online service in Internet history, with membership rolls shooting up in only three years from 500,000 to 7 million. You're about to launch a snazzy TV ad campaign built around a radical change in pricing policy: from stiff, pay-by-the-hour bills to unlimited all-you-can-eat access to the Internet for $19.95 a month. Yet you have added only a modest number of modems...
...mother, like almost every other mother alive today, still remembers exactly where she was when she heard. She was in her tenth grade math class on Nov. 22, 1963 when a voice over the loud-speaker announced that President John F. Kennedy '40 had been assassinated. Her teacher, who at the beginning of the term had joked that the class would be spared homework "only if the President were shot," assigned homework nonetheless...