Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Speed (Die Hard on a bus), director John McTiernan and writer Jonathan Hensleigh turned the tables and appropriated a device sure to be used in this summer's Batman Forever. Like the Riddler, Vengeance's evil genius (Jeremy Irons) taunts the hero with word games, history quizzes and math problems -- riddles, see? This keeps the plot clock ticking as McClane and a good-hearted black racist (Samuel L. Jackson) dash around Manhattan at Irons' bidding...
...voting machines could also be used to modernize state and federal elections. Currently, the paper ballots from state and federal votes are counted at Harvard's Office for Information Technology (OIT), according to Robert Winters, a Harvard math preceptor and a member of the city Election Commission's technical working subcommittee on the computerization of the Cambridge elections...
...week when 121,000 high school seniors file into classrooms around the country to take the calculus Advanced Placement examination, they will need to come armed with more than a couple of sharpened No. 2 pencils and a firm grasp of derivatives; they will also require the latest that math technology has to offer. Under new rules set by the College Board, all students who take the test must have a hand-held graphing calculator. Those who lack this powerful machine, which graphs complex equations, will have to sign a waiver stating that they will not challenge their scores...
...through technology, graphing calculators are to calculus students what microwave ovens are to popcorn lovers; once the device is used, there is no going back. "If you don't use this technology, then you're really teaching as if you were in the 1940s," says Judith Broadwin, an A.P. math teacher at Jericho High School in New York. "The few people who object to this do so because they're afraid...
...considering the many students who cannot afford an $80-to-$100 calculator. And the effort required to learn how to use it, some teachers believe, far outweighs the benefits. "The students grow dependent on a machine to do all the work for them," says Joan Harrison, who teaches A.P. math in Durham, North Carolina. "And I'm driven nuts because I'm having to spend valuable class time trying to get the student to push the right buttons. Where's the learning in that?" Only a few of her pupils own a calculator; the others use ones belonging...