Word: maths
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Your writers asked if there is too much reading and math in Grades 1 through 6. Children need to master the Three Rs (reading, 'riting and 'rithmetic) to fully comprehend and appreciate history, science and all other subjects. Those who don't will truly be left behind...
...Applied Math...
...feel humbled, awed, and manifestly inferior. He’s won virtually everything there is to win, and he’s achieved almost every honor available at Harvard. While a junior, he was one of a select group of students inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. As an applied math concentrator, he has been a head course assistant for several classes. His senior thesis, which was about the education of homeless youth, won the Hoopes prize for outstanding scholarship. And recently he was awarded Mather House’s Scholar Citizen prize by his masters and tutors. Next year Sarkar...
...Maybe, I thought, my disappointment was founded on a mistaken notion of what an ideal education should be. When leaving high school, feeling like you’ve learned a lot of math, science, and English is great because you’re going on to another phase of your life in which those subjects will be useful. Graduating college is different; I’m not sure the ability to discuss Habermas or Aristotle will help me in my career. In fact, I’m pretty sure it won?...
...effort to preserve the country's culinary culture, schools have begun promoting "food education" - teaching students Japanese eating habits. Children take time out of math and science to visit a farmer harvesting rice, or learn to prepare buckwheat soba noodles - a favorite Japanese dish -from scratch. But critics like Iwamura and Ehara say the classes have more to do with promoting Japan's inefficient and politically protected farming sector than cooking or eating. The reality is that as long as increasing numbers of Japanese have to be at work or school until late at night, there...