Word: math
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Neither alternative has been satisfactory. American schools, for instance, are often a year or two behind their Japanese counterparts in critical subjects such as math and science. This handicaps U.S.-based Japanese students when the time comes to compete for spots at Kyoto University and other elite institutions back home...
Nevertheless, Outlook is a very serious enterprise by an intellectually engaged group of Harvard students. There are numerous areas of Black American life requiring serious attention from Harvard Black students. The poor reading, writing and math performance of Black public school students in inner cities cries out for tutorial assistance from Black college students (and from white, Asian, and Hispanic students too.) Such a program, in order to be effective, will have to sustained over the next 20 years perhaps...
...since more funding for state public education is desperately needed. Twenty percent of Boston's high school students find the educational experience so unsatisfying that they drop out. According to the latest round of national tests, those Massachusetts students who do stay in secondary school are steadily declining in math and science competence...
...totally blind, and thus unable to read an examination myself. The registrar's office therefore arranged for a proctor to read my Math 1b make-up final to me aloud, in a separate room. A week prior to the examination, I spoke with the scheduling office about the necessity of finding a proctor who knew calculus, for I feared that someone unfamiliar with mathematical symbols would be unable to read the exam to me accurately and efficiently. The scheduling office assured me that the proctor assigned to administer my exam would be fully familiar with the material. At no point...
...describing the individual letters in each sentence. Then imagine how much harder it would be to understand the reader if you had never physically seen any of the Greek letters he was describing to you. That scenario approaches a sense of the difficulties I faced trying to take my Math 1b examination with a proctor who could not read math...