Word: maths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...MATH FROM ALL ANGLES...
...period: Narrow classes according to interest, and then consider difficulty. Yet this necessary step to an enjoyable semester is not a sufficient one. Smaller, but not unimportant, factors come into play as well. The obvious one is the time your class day will begin. Good courses (excluding introductory level math, science and language) are hard to come by before 11 a.m., a time which seems reasonable. If not, well, that's a personal problem...
...Conspiracy Theory Award: to Shlomo Z. Sternberg's "Math 128: Lie Algebras," which proves just what we in the humanities been saying all along. We have our doubts about that geometry thing...
According to Dean of the college Harry R. Lewis '68, the reason for the drop was a change in the way U.S. News accounted for large courses broken into subsections, such as Spanish A or Math la. Last year they were counted as a single course with more than 50 students, but this year they were reported in accordance to complicated and extensive set of rules...
...patient, advocates argue. Says Thomas Romberg, a University of Wisconsin professor who helped write the revolutionary 1989 math standards: "We knew there needed to be a fair amount of research and teacher training. We knew it would take 20 or 25 years to pull this off." Parents whose 12-year-olds still can't count on their fingers may not want to wait that long...