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...Math 1a with 468 enrolled continues high on the list in fourth position. It is followed by Hum 5 and Soc Sci 1, which regained its status as the most crowded lower level Soc Sci. Both courses enrolled 382 students...
Other courses in the top ten are Math 20a, Nat Sci 5, George Wald's popular offering, and Soc Sci 6, a new-comer to the list. Among the elementary language courses German A ranked first with 220 students, followed by French A with...
...others, he said, delayed taking Nat Sci courses until their sophomore year. Beginning this fall, all six lower level level Natural Science courses require preliminary high school science or math training. The one course that had no prerequisites, Natural Sciences 1, was dropped...
...employees and servicemen of the nearby naval base, would be labeled seventh-to twelfth-graders. But Middletown has banished grades as well as failure and promotion. Instead, subjects are broken into small-step "concepts'' to be mastered over a six-year period. A student may plod in math while simultaneously flying ahead in English. For dullards, it may take seven years to get a diploma. Whippets can finish in five years. Sidney P. Rollins, the education professor at Rhode Island College who devised the plan, calls it "a sophisticated version of the one-room schoolhouse...
Plotting the story were two smart mathematicians, Harvard's Frederick Mosteller, and the University of Chicago's David L. Wallace, who have great faith that math can supply answers in what they call "uncertainty situations." To test their faith they took on a classic uncertainty situation: the historically open question of whether Alexander Hamilton or James Madison wrote twelve of the 77 Federalist Papers that appeared in New York newspapers in 1787-88 under the byline "Publius" (the authorship of the others is known). They got funds from the Ford, Rockefeller and National Science foundations, the Office...