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...after-school experience for students, strengthening the professional development for early childhood education professionals, and a comprehensive program between Harvard’s graduate schools of education, public health, and medicine called the Three-to-Third program. The Three-to-Third program is an initiative to improve reading and math abilities and social and emotional competencies by third grade, using “multidimensional interventions.” “You have to start early,” said Richard Weissbourd, a Graduate School of Education lecturer. “There’s already a significant achievement...
...only reservation I have about participating in studies is that they frequently enlighten me to my ineptness—in a test where I made $38, I did the math incorrectly and gave my partner six dollars more than I should have. The time I got money for negotiating, I would have gotten more if only I have been better at getting my way. The time I listened to an artificial language for a half-hour without being able to understand any of it? My self-esteem took a hit with that...
Acording to Harvard mathematician Shing-Tung Yau, the first time journalist Sylvia Nasar got in touch with him for a story she was writing for the New Yorker, she told him she was interested in the fusion of math and physics as represented in the age-old Poincare Conjecture. Yau, a Harvard string theorist, had a lot to say on the subject—two of his mentees had just completed a full proof of the Conjecture, which had gone unsolved for a hundred years. He happily agreed to talk to her, according to the New Yorker...
Joseph T. M. Cianflone ’07, a Crimson editorial editor, is an economics and math concentrator in Leverett House...
...their combat skills. He wrote that even Islam, which prohibits gambling, has made exceptions for betting on horse races as a way to spur, as it were, youths to become better horsemen and warriors. Some educators leverage the game's current popularity to sneak in their lessons. Emory University math professor Ronald Gould, for example, teaches his freshmen students basic concepts of probability using five-card stud, or for more challenging computations, a seven-card game like Texas Hold...