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...math is rote learning of unexplained rules ("carrying," for instance); new math tries to cut away mystery by making computation seem real, open and understandable. New math is here to stay. But, as many a baffled parent suspects, the teaching of it is in deep confusion. Max Beberman, the Illinois professor who has been urging new math on the U.S. for a decade, is now "very much disturbed...
Another $500 million would go for new programs such as "service centers," mostly located within existing public or private schools, which might provide testing, guidance, remedial math and reading, language laboratories, classes for gifted or retarded children-all outside the usual concept of classroom education...
...which is a mite embarrassing to Coach Arad McCutchan, 52. Arad is an odd name ("My great-grandfather picked it out of the Bible. It means 'a wild ass' "), and McCutchan is an odd coach. A balding, soft-spoken math teacher, he has a notion that the game ought to be played for fun. He wears flaming red socks ("for luck"), dresses the Purple Aces in bright orange road uniforms and warmup robes of yellow, red and green because "I like some color, and purple is hard to see." McCutchan limits his own recruiting to the environs...
...Sinetar's probability factors were inadmissible as assumptions rather than facts. Sinetar, however, merely estimated the factors before inviting the jurors to substitute their own. And the public defender will not appeal because he found no trial errors strong enough to outweigh the strong circumstantial evidence. Convicted by math, Malcolm Collins received a sentence of one year to life. Janet Collins got "not less than one year...
...Kennedy's new residence. "You know every one of your classmates," says Roger R. Compton, a 1961 graduate and now a research associate. "And you're out to beat every one of them." In the current freshman class of 20, eight scored 770 or better in a math achievement test with a top score...