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Cutting through three years of "red tape," Massachusetts Governor William F. Weld '66 yesterday granted his approval for a new math and science school to open in Cambridge in the fall...
With the capacity for 200 students in grades three through eight, the Banneker School will offer a curriculum focused on math and science, with a strong emphasis on multiculturalism. Although planners have not yet chosen a site, they are considering the building formerly housing St. Mary's Catholic School, on Harvard Street near M.I.T...
Ongoing. "Holography: Artists and Inventors." "MIT Hall of Hacks." "Light Sculptures by Bill Parker." "Math in 3D: Geometric Sculptures by Morton G. Bradley, Jr." "Math Space...
What about pencils? Who still uses them? They can't write in blue, or black. They can't look decisive or bold. They remind us of high school math class. Ahh, but here's the one, obvious beauty of a pencil: graphite disappears with a little help from that wonder of physics, friction. Pencils at Harvard are reserved for either those who aren't vain enough to care about permanence or for taking exams, where we would rather not have our confused hieroglyphics remembered. Pencil use has its hierarchy, though: note the dichotomy between integral-calculators, who use mechanical pencils...
This ignores two facts. The first of these is the fact that girls outperform boys in reading and writing by even larger margins. On the National Assessment of Education Progress Tests (NAEP) given to seventeen-year-olds, boys scored three points higher on math and eleven points higher in science than girls, yet girls performed 13 points better in reading and 24 points higher in writing than boys, according to Sommers...