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...most introductory algebra texts used in high schools are unclear and confusing, often hindering students from learning the rudiments. He attributed the frightening decline in mathematics test scores across the country to abstruse textbooks written in the name of the New Math by "arrogantly inept" mathematicians who do not teach beginners. Like many other classroom algebra teachers, he found that such textbooks emphasize mathematical theory at the expense of practice and are usually written in baffling jargon. Emphasis is placed on rapid exposure to many "topics," or procedures. Before students can master one topic, explains Saxon, they must move...
...Solidarity member who left Poland last spring to teach at Harvard retained hope that the union could effectively counter the government thrust without bloodshed. "I can only hope that the people will react peacefully to this...but in a decisive way," Stanislaw Baranczak, associate professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, said...
...performance by the Odeon Trio of the Tcherepnin (all members perform and teach in Germany) stands out most for its coordination, rhythmically and musically. The Pro Musica Trio has recorded the trio on Pro Musica Records, an unfamiliar name. Although the rhythms themselves might be inaccurate, as in the second movement, where the violin plays 13 and 15 notes in one beat in a rather difficult passage, the rest of the players come in at just the right time to insure cohesion. Although the first theme of the first and second movements is reiterated at the end of both...
About 60 students, most of whom are from the Law School, are enrolled in Moore's course, "Anthropological Approaches to Law." She is slated to teach an introductory course in social anthropology this spring...
Many people believe that cats are so biologically programmed for survival in the wilderness that they cannot be trained. While unaltered cats are almost impossible to work with, say the experts, food and affection-heavy on the food, please-will help teach most house cats to forgo clawing the couch and spraying. With the patience usually given only to holy men-plus more food-felines can also be tutored in the arts of sitting on command, lying down and rolling over. Some proud owners have even instructed their cats to eat daintily with their paws directly from the food...