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Mathematics, the schoolboy's horror, is perking up again after a long sabbatical in the educational doghouse. During the '30s the proportion of high-school pupils taking math dropped a third in six years, and many an educator dismissed algebra, to the vast relief of pupils, as a useless subject. But last week there were signs aplenty that U.S. schools were returning to the view that there is much to be said for the third...
...Private-school headmasters learned that too many boys knew too little math to qualify as officer material for the Army and Navy, decided to teach them more...
...Many colleges are going in for survey courses, which explain and link together quickly all the branches of math...
...Even in Progressive schools teachers have found that math cannot be properly taught as an incident in storekeeping, needs to be studied in its own right...
...unfortunate course which tries to adapt itself to the interests of pre-medical and distribution students and still please the mathematicians and future engineers in its midst, the course which tries to be advanced enough to pre-suppose prep school physics and still be simple enough not to require Math A. Now Defense is taking its toll. The scope of the course will be compressed this year into four-fifths of its former length, and the time gained will be devoted to electronics--enough to tease, but not enough to make a radio operator...