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...that way. Troubled that most elementary teachers get too much training in method and too little in subject content, she set up a new series of courses to turn out specialists in mathematics and French. She asked Robert B. Davis, professor of mathematics at Syracuse University, to direct her math project at precisely the same time that Physicist Zacharias was trying to lure Davis to M.I.T. Sister Jacqueline won, and Davis goes to Webster College every other week on a flying commute. To head up the new French program, Sister Jacqueline got Elizabeth Ratte, director of the much-admired Foreign...
Collection boxes will be in the dining balls tonight for books to be used by Harvard and Radcliffe students entering the Peace Corps and PBH's Project Taganyika. Please look through yours. Textbooks are desperately needed, especially lower-level science and math...
Exploring (NBC, 12:30-1:30 p.m.). An educational smorgasbord for children, including puppets explaining math and astronomy, a re-creation of the Battle of Saratoga in 1777, a small segment of the life and times of the average porpoise, and Actor Eli Wallach reading The Pied Piper of Hamlin...
...Doty Committee might consider requiring, in addition to one introductory science course, mathematical proficiency equivalent to that provided by, say, Math. 1. The Redbook and Holton emphasized how useful, and often how essential, mathematics is for a direct approach to scientific problems; scientific literacy without the concepts of function, rate of change, and limit, and what these mean in operation, is subtile indeed...
...Harvard degree includes just sixteen courses, the scientist cannot take introductory courses in all the fields that look interesting. The creation of concentration in Biochemical Sciences, and in Physics and Chemistry, offers pragmatic evidence of scientists' need to know more than what the departments circumscribe. A elementary biologist with Math. 1 at hand, for example, might want to look at elementary thermodynamics and statistical mechanics to see what they offer by way of models of ecosystems. Such courses could perform some of the three Gen Ed issues as well: A course for physicists might teach evolutionary and genetic theories...