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Here at Harvard, where a 750 SAT math score is a skeleton to be locked firmly in the closet, one might be forgiven for thinking math is pretty easy. Yet beware! For amongst you—in every pore of the social fabric—lurk the mathematically disinclined. A recent Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) survey serves to remind the forgetful just how awful Americans are at math. The U.S. came in 24th out of the 29 OECD countries ranked...
...this metric system helped the Spaniards outpace America’s future—the children are, after all, our future, even if our future can’t add that well—but Americans would do well to admit that they have failed to teach math to an entire generation...
...long-time affiliation with Lowell House when his first opera was played as the Lowell House Opera in 1985. Professor Elkies describes the suggested link between music and mathematics as “fascinating” but he notes that he is “better at either math or music than philosophizing about the relationship between them...
Lewis Z. Liu ’08 is another notebook fanatic. Liu has notebooks for everything: a green Ampad for his math scratchwork (only the spiralbound kind), another for his Math 23 notes, two red Ampads for Physics 16, an unlined book for art, a battered poetry spiralbound, a clipboard with loose-leaf for penning his problem sets...
Sitting in his Pennypacker suite, Liu dreams of the future of his Math 23 notes—some of which are taped to his wall already, decorated with blue ink and green highlighter...