Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Portland...
Loaded Words. In Salem, Ore., the Unemployment Compensation Commission decided that a Portland woman was entitled to unemployment compensation because she quit after her boss called...
...least 35 of the students who gathered for the special class at Benson Polytechnic High School in Portland, Ore. last week had reason to feel a little ill at ease. They were all local high-school teachers, and there they were with 45 of the brightest boys and girls in town, taking a course as if they were still in their teens. "Let us not let our blood pressure go up." said Instructor William Matson soothingly. "Let us not let our hearts beat too fast." Then he began his lecture on the complexities of modern mathematics...
...Years Old. With the help of Reed College, Portland has been holding such classes for its gifted pupils since 1952. The program is so successful that last fall some teachers finally asked Math Supervisor Lesta Hoel: "Why can't we have a class in modern math for teachers too?" The teachers decided that they and some youngsters should learn together under five Reed-trained instructors, and Supervisor Hoel even joined the class herself. Research in mathematics, she explains, has advanced so rapidly that today's teachers are now way out of date. "We're using in geometry...
After only three sessions, some of the teachers have already begun to expose their own pupils to the new things they have learned. But the major lesson of the Portland project is that if more cities do not do something similar soon, U.S. teachers will find themselves dismally unprepared for a curriculum in which the barriers between algebra, geometry and analysis are crumbling, solid geometry and trigonometry may disappear as separate subjects, and algebra will deal with such topics as groups, rings and fields. As one Portland student put it: "Even the concept of the line has changed. In geometry...