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University of Chicago Professor of Education Zalman Usiskin directs part of a reform project to attack failings that the studies point out. Among his proposed first steps: development of well-trained math specialists to supplement the typical all-purpose teacher in the early grades. Usiskin will study translations of a number of foreign texts. "We can use them for ideas," he says. Further, he would move geometry and algebra preparation down into the seventh grade, leaving the later years free for advanced studies, including statistics and computers. Says Travers: "The demands of a high-tech society require that we upgrade...
...findings, which were published in Science, disturbed some men and not a few women. Now there is comfort for those people in a new study from the University of Chicago that suggests math is not, after all, a natural male domain. With Researcher Sharon Senk, Professor Zalman Usiskin, a specialist in high school mathematics curriculums and an author of several math texts, studied 1,366 tenth-graders. They were selected from geometry classes and tested on their ability to solve geometry proofs, a subject requiring both abstract reasoning and spatial ability. Says Usiskin: "If you're a math whiz...
...week's meeting of the American Educational Research Association in New York City. In a draft that has already been circulated, the Chicago researchers decided to take a few swipes at the recent Johns Hopkins findings. They argued that Benbow and Stanley had measured performance, not ability. Says Usiskin: "To assume that the SAT has no connection with experience is poppycock." Replies Stanley, who now has 50,000 subjects to bolster his conclusion: "People are so eager not to believe that there is a difference in mathematical reasoning ability between boys and girls that all kinds of people...
Greg Kirsch performed his patented John Havlicek sixth man imitation again, filling in for Bob Horne Friday to post a solid 6-4, 6-3 win over Keith Usiskin. Saturday, Kirsch rounded out his Harvard singles career by wasting Grant Hayne, 6-2, 6-1. A stellar performer for the Cimson Crimson all season, Kirsch later Saturday afternoon triumphantly ended his career, teaming up with Sands at number one doubles to record an 8-1 pro-set decision over future second lieutenants Todd and Bell...
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