Word: maths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Florida State's "Math Camp" in Tallahassee, the boys took time for dormitory bridge. One evening David Hackney, 14, of Daytona Beach, after bidding seven spades, laid down his 13 spades. The ensuing uproar was capped when Edward Root, 16, of St. Petersburg, jotted a formula on the blackboard, ran some figures through a table computer, did some paper work and announced that a bridge player could expect such a hand once in 635,013,559,600 deals...
Leader of the four was blond, slight Jake Breitenbach, 24, a guide at Wyoming's Petzoldt-Exum School of American Mountaineering. Like Jake, the others were young, but experienced beyond their years in their perilous art: Ski Instructors Pete Sinclair, 23, and Barry Corbet, 22; Math Teacher Bill Buckingham, 22, a member of the American Alpine Club...
Keppel discussed two topics in relation to the current controversy over American versus Russian education. It is impossible to think of the pupil and the subject as being taught separately, he said, and science and math need not be overemphasized at the expense of the arts. Keppel also discussed the functions of various types of University deans...
Ireland ringing with Parnell's cry: "No man has a right to fix a boundary to the march of a nation." A soft-spoken teacher of math who later joined the Sinn Fein (We Ourselves), "Dev" is still credited by legend with being the last rebel patriot to surrender during the Battle of Boland's Mills in 1916, and with being one of only 13 scholars who understood Einstein's theory of relativity...
While similar courses might be worked out in the natural science area, here the whole area might be more profitably changed into a semester divided system, in which students could study certain options depending upon the amount of science or math they had mastered. Natural sciences pose special problems, but improvements here are certainly needed...