Word: maths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...math course," says Benedict H. Gross, Leverett professor of mathematics. "There is nothing specific that has to be covered...
Last year Congress nudged the program in the right direction, but the steps were meek: four-year-olds who know 10 letters of the alphabet, for example, are felt to be on track. Bush would require lessons that stress prereading and math, teachers who can teach this and evaluations to make sure it is done well. If existing centers don't deliver, Bush would sensibly make them compete with others for their federal contract...
...game time against Oberlin, the Swarthmore students weren't behaving like Quakers. Close to 200 showed up for the game--not bad on a campus of 1,380. It is more common to see students at games wearing Swarthmore math department T shirts (WE MATH GOOD) than football jerseys. "A lot of people don't care about football here," said senior Paul Dickson, an engineering major. "It doesn't exactly fit into the culture." But the team's ignominious run has aroused the curious. Said another senior, Abbas Ebrahim: "There's the whole Cinderella thing about the streak...
...main reason I ended up in Applied Math was that the thought of being yet another lawyer or investment banker was more depressing than the thought of writing COBOL," he says. "It wasn't a deeply reasoned decision...
...Build strong language, math and critical-thinking skills early by playing educational games at home. Encourage your child to take the most challenging courses offered in school. Stanford boasts that its freshman class usually comprises students who have taken the toughest classes offered--and earned...