Word: methodic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Three Israeli scientists last week said they have found a surefire method of determining a baby's sex before birth...
...method is based on the fact, demonstrated by Canadian scientists (TIME, Feb. 23, 1953), that a substance called sex chromatin can be detected in female but not in male cells. Dr. David Serr and Geneticists Leo Sachs and Mathilde Danon of Jerusalem's Rothschild-Hadassah University Hospital reasoned that cells in the amniotic fluid, the liquid inside the sac that encloses the fetus, could be analyzed to reveal the child's sex. To get small samples of the fluid, they inserted an extremely fine hypodermic needle through the vagina and into...
...airport, says Associate School Superintendent Helen C. Bailey of Philadelphia, and then have them dictate a story about it to her. "This is a kind of commercial to get them interested. We show them the words so they'll want to read." It is also one method of developing a pupil's story sense, of training him to think of a chain of events in proper order. Meanwhile, the teacher also sharpens the eye and the ear. If a student cannot distinguish sounds, if he circles comb when he should have circled cone, he may end up insisting...
...have experimented with a phonic system developed by a Texas schoolteacher named Cornelia Sloop. This also starts with vowel sounds, then goes on to consonants, and within a few weeks, to the rules of spelling. Last year Champaign found that while 43.4% of the pupils taught by the standard method scored below the nation al reading level, the score for the Sloop-trained pupils was only 20.7% below...
...Mason City, Iowa has tried another system. Its inventor: Associate Professor Nadine Fillmore of Coe College. Though Professor Fillmore does not ignore other methods of attacking words, she places a heavy emphasis on phonics. Mason City tested two groups of 17 pupils, found that after one semester, 14 of the 17 taught by the Fillmore method had gained anywhere from three-tenths of a month to four years and four months over their counterparts in a normal class...