Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last year's ninth-and 10th-largest courses, Chemistry 5 and Math 1b, were ousted this year--one by a new Core course, one by a class the CUE guide lauded for its lenient requirements...
...woke up early to move my car because I knew it was street cleaning day. My car was parked behind the Quad (where they don't ticket you every five minutes, just every third day) on the Fourth-Wednesday-of-the-Month side; drawing on my proficiency in math, I had figured out that the fourth Wednesday had come...
...preparation for the 21st century will involve greater emphasis on science and math than in the past century," he said. "What is [now] possible is for the scientists of the future to have more hands-on familiarity with invention and experimentation...
...much sniffing and sneering from the local newspaper, which dismissed the idea as "futuristic," "dubious" and "a gimmick," City Magnet School opened in 1981 in a empty library in Lowell, Massachusetts. By 1987 the school's students were testing two years above the national norm in both reading and math. Then in 1990, 13 eighth-graders passed first-year college-level exams, again in reading and math. School attendance hovers around 96%, and during the past six years only five children have dropped out. Those numbers were impressive enough to inspire the New York school districts of Yonkers and Newburgh...
Under the Microsociety model, the school day is split in two. The morning is / devoted to traditional classes in history, science, English, math. In the afternoon students put the lessons to work. They memorize multiplication tables not only to score well on problem sets but also so they can keep double-entry books, write checks, bill customers and complete financial audits. Says Gladys Pack, Yonkers' assistant superintendent: "We're making learning real because kids in Micro believe they're living in a real world...