Word: maths
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When he arrived on the Harvard campus, Miller employed the sames kind of drive to ensure that he developed a set of skills other than music so that he’d be financially stable in the future. For him, that skill set was mathematical. His math concentration took up a lot of time, and Miller, feeling uninspired by Harvard’s jazz scene, took a break from his saxophone...
...reassess the whole pool of kids to try to ensure a well-rounded campus. "It's a great way to shape the class and meet our institutional priorities," says Dick Nesbitt, director of admissions at Williams College. "Maybe we could use a few more artists or a few more math or science researchers." Williams waitlisted 1,000 applicants this year for a class of 538 and last year admitted 52 from the list...
...want to play it of their own volition, it is the equivalent of forcing them to read a book,” Haley says. But Kaplan isn’t the first company to use video games for educational purposes. In 1998, Macmillan Digital Publishing released “Math Invaders,” an action game resembling the classic “Doom.” While it was more popular than previous educational video games, its mild success owed largely to the fact that math took a backseat to entertainment. Kaplan has yet to divulge details about their...
...essentially a means to an end. “We were out there to make money,” Irvine said. “It was definitely a business for us.” According to Irvine, “all you need to count cards is...grade-school math.” As attendees followed along in their own decks, he explained the counting process. Cards numbered two through six are “plus one”; seven through nine are “neutral”; and ten through ace are “minus...
...extra activities. Do not innocently engage in learning for 'learning sake' --although certainly say you do. Do not take introductory Arabic or Chinese because they sound contemporary and important, especially when most kids in those classes will be native speakers looking for guts. Do not take some super-duper math course because it sounds 'interesting...