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...courses to instill analytical and quantitative ways of thinking. The biggest stumbling block for including math and science courses might be that Science "A" purports to be limited to an examination of the physical world, as the course catalogue states. But problems dealing with the physical world--using calculus and computer functions--differ only semantically from the problem sets assigned in current Science "A" courses...
Having decided against playing on a club level he was shocked to get a note during a calculus exam near the end of his senior year saying that Harvard water polo had been promoted to varsity status. "I was all of a sudden so psyched to play again that I didn't finish the test," Fasi says, "I just kept reading the note over and over...
...make a decision that will affect a student's academic and professional future. A successful class campaign probably results more from candidate's popularity or familiarity with of students than it does from a debate over which moral issue "transcends" another "I Finished On Three Kids In My Calculus Section" hardly makes a convincing campaign slogan...
...calculus is a head-snapper. For example, the SWS's assigned to a bomber would be its total takeoff weight divided by a "K" factor. The K factor for a plane carrying cruise missiles would yield a greater SWS total than the K factor for an identical plane carrying bombs, which are viewed as less lethal. The K factor for land-based missiles takes into account the size and number of warheads. Thus the MX missile, with ten warheads, could count as ten SWS's-but the Soviet SS-18, which also has ten warheads, would equal...
...accelerated course of study with strong emphasis on English, math, science, arts and foreign languages. Louisiana has opened a residential state school in Natchitoches for students gifted in math, science and the arts, modeled on North Carolina's boarding school. In Iowa, where only 1,500 students took calculus last year (but 17,500 elected driver's education), the state is instituting an incentive program. Students who take upper-level math and science courses will be eligible for a special, onetime tuition grant of $500 to attend any college in the state. Furthermore, the Iowa legislature has approved...