Word: algebraic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Math Department has awakened to but half the challenge. While preparing to meet the demands of such programs as V-7 by offering elementary courses in trigonometry and high-school algebra, they have done nothing to remove the anachronism of an undergraduate study-course which most nearly resembles the extravagant tales of Progressive Education in the freedom of material which it allows its section men, and in the resulting lack of rigorous or uniform training. The fastest Math A sections cover a wealth of material never approached by their slower brethren, and the final examinations of the former group...
...compiled a notebook on navigation. At 14 he began a notebook on surveying entitled The Practical Surveyor. At 15 he compiled a notebook on algebra. He also constructed a barometer and wrote an almanac which "will shew . . . Suns rising, setting, declination, amplitude, his place in the Ecliptic, Right Ascension, Equation of time, the Moons Right Ascension & place in the Ecliptic, time of her rising and setting and southing . . . and the time of high Water at Salem, Epact, Golden Number & the year of the Julian Period...
...Study of arithmetic, algebra and geometry is combined, relations between them explained...
...this requires sweeping revision of the famed old standard textbooks (e.g., Robinson's Practical Arithmetic, Wentworth's New School Algebra, the Schultze & Sevenoak's Plane and Solid Geometry...
...Navy has had to turn down hundreds of candidates for commissions because of deficiencies in math, said Lieut. Commander Burton Davis, urging the preparatory schools to make every boy take at least two and a half years of math, including algebra, plane and solid geometry, trigonometry...