Word: math
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...Brooklyn looked pretty good. The report was full of qualifications, and the results were still incomplete. But it clearly indicated that "underachieving students"-defined as those who score lower on standardized tests than their grades and class rank warrant -after ten weeks of coaching could improve both verbal and math scores by an average of 25 points. The largest average gain ever found by the College Board was eight to ten points...
...spoken by an actor or actress on television." Opponents point out that the minimal degree of reading skill and concentration required by TV teaching is not adequate training for serious study of literature or history, or for the effort necessary to master subjects that cannot be easily popularized, like math and chemistry. They also fear that television teaching may stimulate excessive viewing among a generation that watches too much TV as it is. The prospect of ten-year-old tube junkies using TV Guide as a syllabus is unsettling to parents who believe that serious learning comes from books. Teachers...
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...consequence of the catastrophe theory controversy, a book designed for the layman. Except for an occasional article in Scientific American or Newsweek, literature on this new methodology has been highly technical--and few members of the general public are sufficiently adept at differential topology to wade through such formidable math...
...authors bypass the math and cut to the core, relating the theory's history, fundamental concepts, applications and elements of the current controversy. Although swallowing the theory without the math requires some suspension of disbelief, Woodcock and Davis manage to present a cogent summary and the reader is left with the feeling that he has at least a handhold on the material...