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...managing editor called my phone and left a cruel message, heard first by my roommate, compounding my humiliation. I had a math test that day. Failed it. It was also my birthday...
...It’s a program where engineers who work for a variety of companies work with teachers in teaching students how math and science is used in real world,” he says...
...committee was made up of the chairs of seven Core subcommittees—one for each Core area of study, plus expository writing and the math requirement...
...devastating as we once thought--and, says a new study in J.A.M.A., may even be mitigated by good parenting. Studying 376 preschoolers, researchers found that youngsters who were exposed to cocaine in utero scored slightly lower on tests of visual-spatial skills, general knowledge and math skills than nonexposed kids. But drug-exposed children who were placed in nurturing foster or adoptive care--or whose caregivers had rich vocabularies--had IQs similar to children whose mothers never took drugs...
...other fiction at all in five years), takes it easy on the reader here. Sure, his three-page-long sentences can make Faulkner look like Hemingway, and even short sentences can require four trips to the dictionary, but he has dropped his numbered footnotes, has cut down on the math formulas and tells linear tales nearly grounded in reality. This is as close as the guy is going to get to beach reading...