Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thought Harvard was a math school. I was staying with another pre-frosh who was very good at math. I, on the other hand, had trouble counting change...
Many of my co-pre-frosh's friends were acquaintances from math competitions, math fairs, math conventions, math jamborees. And this is when I realized that by golly, while I had been splashing in wading pools for seventeen summers, other kids had been doing stuff. Math stuff. Had I picked the wrong school...
...shouldn't I be able to share my software with my neighbor? Society continually reminds us that we should help other people, and sharing seems a virtually natural instinct. How am I helping anyone when I keep a neat word processor or a math package locked away on my computer for solely my personal use? If my neighbor wants my spreadsheet, I should certainly be free to give it to her--especially since it will not hurt me in the slightest...
...People that are aware of various educational concepts might do some reading...on using more manipulatives in math and that sort of thing," Giroux says. "This is one of our major problems. If you get someone from Haiti...who's fleeing oppression, many times people from that kind of background are looking for a school close to their house...
...need math or computers to run a business," Lynch said. "I was never good in math--cosines, algebra, boy, that was tough...