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...assistant commissioner, Max Rosenblatt, yesterday denied reports that the MDC had decided on a go-slow policy for two months so that plans could take into account traffic generated by the proposed National Aeronautics and Space Administration research center...
Each year more U.S. parents find that their children's mathematics home work is vastly different from what math was when they went to school. This is the "new math," and the change goes back to 1952, when Mathematician Max Beberman and others became alarmed that math teaching in U.S. schools had not changed essentially in 150 years. In pioneering new methods at the University of Illinois, Beberman sparked a movement that has now influenced about 10% of U.S. elementary schools and 60% of high schools. This year Texas assigned 30,000 teachers to learn new math. This month...
Such "intuitive preparation," as Max Beberman calls it, is the key to great changes in better schools. Algebra is no longer taught as a collection of rules, with proofs reserved to geometry, for example. The subjects are complementary, and now begin in grade school. Plane and solid geometry are merged, allowing simultaneous treatment of a problem in two and three dimensions. More high schools teach statistics and probability; trigonometry stresses analysis of trigonometric functions rather than archaic solution of triangles...
...respiration gasmeter, invented at the Max Planck Institute of Dortmund, Germany, weighs 81 Ibs., is about the size of a lunchbox, and includes a transparent face mask attached to the box by a flexible hose. It operates on the principle that physical work involves energy consumption that can be measured by the amount of oxygen the body consumes. Air expelled from the patient's lungs during a work period is collected through the face mask and stored in an orange balloon. Then the balloon is detached and its contents analyzed. Measurement of the amount of unused oxygen tells...
Search for Codes. A great many Americans-probably the majority-live by the old religious morality. Or at least they try to; they may practice what Max Lerner describes as "patterned evasion," a heavy but charitable way of saying that to keep society going people must be free, up to a point, not to practice what they profess...