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...controversies.The Princeton article, which was written in broken English, parodied an Asian-American student who, after being denied admission, sued the school for discrimination. The article appeared in the paper’s annual prank edition.The column began, “Hi Princeton! Remember me? I so good at math and science. Perfect 2400 SAT score. Ring bells?”The writers, some of whom were Asian, said that their intent was not to insult Asians, but rather to mock the very stereotypes racism employs.But many on campus found the article offensive and 629 students have joined the Facebook...
...became a teacher and worked in just about every position in education--teacher's aide; staff developer; math coach; and sixth-grade teacher in a self-contained class where he taught social studies, science, math and English language arts. Along the way, he was recruited to work in some of the city's best schools. But when offered a position in his old neighborhood, he realized that that was where he could make the biggest difference. "We each have a responsibility and an obligation to better the lives of as many people as we can," says Kennedy. "There is greatness...
Tymoczko's answer, which led last summer to the first paper on music theory ever published in the journal Science, is that the cosmos of chords consists of weird, multidimensional spaces, known as orbifolds, that turn back on themselves with a twist, like the Mbius strips math teachers love to trot out to prove to students that a two-dimensional figure can have only one side. Indeed, the simplest chords, which consist of just two notes, live on an actual Mbius strip. Three-note chords reside in spaces that look like prisms--except that opposing faces connect...
...others to require only a final paper rather than an exam. According to Bret J. Benesh, a preceptor for Mathematics 1a, “Introduction to Calculus,” said it would be hard to ask students to write a final paper rather than take an exam in math. “A lot of people [view] math as a series of facts to be learned” and therefore would consider a paper about math “silly...because it wouldn’t be very deep,” he said. And he said that moving...
...response to stress was borne out by other student testimony. “I feel like a bite takes away a tiny piece of time that I can’t get back,” said Ryan A. Fitzgerald ’10, who, accompanied by his Math 21a notebook, was sitting down for his first meal of the day at 5:30 yesterday evening. According to dining hall officials, however, most students don’t seem to be watching their time in the dining hall too closely. When asked about exam-period trends in food consumption levels...