Word: maths
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...largely forgotten 100-year-old sonnet is counterintuitive, bear with me, because it’s completely appropriate. Before this year began, I had no idea that I would be preparing to put myself before a class of middle schoolers and try to teach them math, of all things. As a person who stutters, the idea of teaching younger students was something that had never occurred to me, something that I would have said was simply beyond me. I went through Harvard with vague ideas of graduate school (while trying not to think about what speaking in front...
...Obviously that's a course most students are never going to take," Harris said. "But if we're going to tell math students, 'You have to do EMR [Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning], it's important that we provide a really advanced course...
...advanced math class was also approved. Mathematics professor Lauren K. Williams' Mathematics 154: "Probability Theory" will count toward Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning...
...Hillary Clinton team prefers-for a few more days, at least-to do the math differently. With her win in Puerto Rico and a net gain of 24 delegates over the weekend in party rules meetings, Clinton is on the verge of eeking out a tiny moral victory: unless a torrent of superdelegates emerges in the next 48 hours, she will have deprived Obama from clinching the nomination before the official end of the primary season...
...call her calculations "math" is a reach: Clinton's popular vote claim counts all the primary vote totals but ignores the 15 party caucuses that attracted thousands of participants in every state, and which Obama dominated. That's a revealing way to sum up the five-month long election-and it will be intriguing to see how long Clinton chooses to cling to that line...