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...start with, but in their teens they begin to fall behind boys in analytic facility, which includes mathematics. Mrs. Maccoby correlates this fact with the discovery from various psychological tests that children (boys included) who are protected and discouraged from aggression, independence and initiative tend to be poor at math, while those who are early turned loose on their own to work out their problems without help tend to be better at it. And girls are more likely than boys to have an overprotective kind of upbringing...
...knowing the basic unity of their subject, were shocked at the bits-and-pieces approach of high school texts, and devised a thematic course now used by 30% of all high school physics students. The example was so appealing that other university scholars plunged into other school subjects. Now, math, biology, chemistry, foreign languages and even English are all bubbling with more new ideas than U.S. schools have ever seen at one time...
Humanities may prove a lot tougher to help than science. The key idea in "new" math and physics is "discovery": rather than memorizing Newton's laws of motion, for example, students are led through experiments to conclude that the laws exist. But history is a can of worms: its "truths" tend to be value judgments, not physical facts. However much a superb teacher leads a student to true investigation, not timid indoctrination, the final conclusion is partly subjective...
...much to go here as it would to go to Fordham, commuting," says one boy from a New York City suburb. Admission standards are high. Americans must not only have top school grades, but must also take St. Mike's "13th year" of high school (more English, math, science, languages) before becoming full-fledged collegians. They are then so well prepared, says one American professor of English, that he gives freshmen the same Chaucer course that he used to give seniors and graduate students at Cornell. Many Americans still get through in four years because Canadian universities require only...
...blackboard was chalked: "Vive Miss France!" But as the French press put it, there were "perturbations" at the Bel-Air Lycée for Girls in Angouleme, near Limoges, and the perturbation was all because Math Teacher Muguette Fabris, 22, had gone to Bordeaux to practice a little solid (89-50-90*) geometry. The judges took one look at Muguette in a swimsuit and-zut! She was Miss France. Back at the Lycée, the principal had no head for figures, made Muguette promise to forgo makeup at school and to come to work by bus instead...