Word: maths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...percentage of classes with enrollment above 50 comparable to a state school system. Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Education Jeffrey Wolcowitz told me that last year, over half of Harvard's classes had under 20 people. He also said that U.S. News may have counted courses like Math 21a, Expository Writing 10 and Spanish A as courses with large enrollment, when they are in fact taught entirely in sections of 20 and under...
...entire right side of her cortex when she was six. Binder lost virtually all the control she had established over muscles on the left side of her body, the side controlled by the right side of the brain. Yet today, after years of therapy ranging from leg lifts to math and music drills, Binder is an A student at the Holmes Middle School in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She loves music, math and art--skills usually associated with the right half of the brain. And while Binder's recuperation is not 100%--for example, she has never regained...
Although the syllabus warns that the course is not easy, there are no prerequisites and sections are divided by math and physics background. Requirements include a midterm, final, section presentation and two short papers...
...semiconductor chips for companies such as Intel and Motorola, some employers reject as many as 9 out of 10 job seekers for want of needed skills. So the Maricopa community-college system has teamed up with companies to produce techies--sometimes called "gold collar" workers--who are grounded in math and science, computer literate and armed with basic writing skills...
...early '80s, Harvard did not have a computer science concentration so Seltzer instead majored in applied mathematics which meant, according to her, more math and less computer science than computer science concentrators have today. Still Seltzer had the all-nighters--just as students do today--the night before her weekly problem sets were...