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Newspapers aid in learning
Kid’s math can improve
United Press International
The newspaper you’re
Jading contains a vast
ount of information that
n be used to help your
ild’s math education.
The National Council of
eachers of Mathematics
akes the claim and gives
me directions in a new free
mphlet, “How To Be the
us In Your Child’s Math
ucation.”
.Mill The pamphlet also tells
[„■ h(' w to use the home as a math
arBi; learning center.
a I “Newspapers can be used
1 tohelpyour child develop and
8 linforce computational and
graphing skills,” the NCTM
|ys.
Start with something sim-
e, such as keeping track of
lily temperatures listed in
Je paper. Do this by con-
ucting a graph.
Adding prices on an order
drawn from food ads provides
sy practice in computation,
jhe same for figuring the
m of prices in a wish list put
gether from toy store ads.
There even are elementary
:onomics lessons from math
ercises your child can per-
jprm from information in the
7 iper, the NCTM said.
^“Take coupons.
“Evaluate the economics of
coupon clipping by having
your child clip out and save
food coupons for a week,” the
NCTM said.
“Then raise questions like,
‘How much money could be
saved in a week if all the
coupons were used? Would
that amount pay for the news
paper for a week?”’
The NCTM says problem
solving activities can be cre
ated anywhere and describes
one keyed to eating out.
“Newspapers can be
used to help your
child develop and
reinforce computa
tional and graphing
skills. ,,
“Using a menu, have your
child total the cost of meals for
four and the number of items
ordered.
for excellent, fair and poor
service.”
As for using the home as a
math learning center, the
opportunities are numerous
and unique, said Joe Caravel-
la, director of membership for,
the NCTM.
He said there is an unli
mited supply of data in a
home and that lends itself to
the collection, display, use and
understanding of data — an
important skill.
One data exercise given in
the pamphlet:
—Help child make a chart
with blocks for the days, Sun
day to Saturday. Divide the
blocks by activities — sleep,
eat, play, travel, school, home
work, electronic entertain
ment and other.
—Help child put down the
number of hours spent on
each activity during the seven
24-hour periods. By week’s
end, the chart displays a re
cord of how time was spent.
that to be true when we re
ceived thousands of requests
from parents a few years back
when we offered a pamphlet
on 67 activities kids could per
form on a pocket calculator.
“We were surprised by the
response since we had come to
believe many parents have
math phobia.”
In another tactic designed
to draw parents into math
education, Caravella said
math teachers want parents to
join the NCTM.
“Parents play the most im
portant role in a child’s educa
tion,” he said.
“That’s why we’re saying to
parents, ‘Get involved with
your child’s mathematics edu
cation and let the NCTM help
you be that special plus.’”
“Then have the child com
pute the average cost of each
meal, and the average cost of
the items ordered. Finally,
have child determine the tip
Caravella said the pam
phlet was developed in re
sponse to enormous interest
among parents wanting to get
involved in the math educa
tion of their children.
“Polls show that they want
to,” he said, “and we found
For a copy of “How To Be
the Plus In Your Child’s
Mathematics Education,”
send a self-addressed,
stamped envelope to “PLUS,”
National Council of Teachers
of Mathematics, 1906 Associa
tion Drive, Reston, Va. 22091.
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waslWASHINGTON — An admi-
> nistration-supported natural
Dilli p decontrol bill suffered a
iced i rushing defeat Tuesday when
ontli the Senate voted 67-28 against it
d Dun a critical test vote,
ingil* The bill, which would lift
BeJ ice controls after three years,
edi!i|as essentially offered as an
xiSiaimendment in order to allow
K test.
't tm The measure was soundly de-
Evaipted despite the declaration of
eu kn James McClure, R-Idaho,
e Biwirman of the Senate Energy
1 uiCommittee, that it was the “best
enptmpromise” the panel could
“Maybe we should retire to
at hi
dupoi
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cognize in advance that it was
! Did loomed to be voted down and
:rt: latsome compromise would be
kessary.
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the cloakroom, roll up our shirt
sleeves and take our pencils out
to see if we can meld these all
together,” he said before the
vote.
The rejection came only mi
nutes after the Senate also voted
71-26 against a proposal by Sen.
Nancy Kassebaum, R-Kan., to
roll natural, gas price ceilings
back to their August 1982 levels.
The Senate rejected Kasse-
baum’s “Natural Gas Consumer
Relief Act” after it was attacked
by McClure as one that would
“do more damage than good.”
The Idaho Republican said
the Kassebaum bill was “unba
lanced” and might lower gas
prices for consumers over the
short run.
But he said it was “so weight
ed against” gas producers that it
would raise prices over the long
run.
By lowering ceiling prices to
1980” levels, he said, prices
would be “too low” after 1984 to
encourage increased gas pro
duction.
After rejection of the Kasse
baum amendment, the Senate
returned to consideration of the
committee bill.
That bill called for the lifting
of all gas price controls after a
three-year transition period,
during which price ceilings for
cheap “old” gas from wells dril
led prior to 1977 would be gra
dually raised. At the same time,
price ceilings on expensive new
gas produced later would be
phased down.
The committee bill was a sub
stitute for an administration bill
calling for the immediate
controls and the
of controls on ol
Defendant takes
girlfriend hostage
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SAN ANTONIO — A defen-
bt in a federal firearms case
)ok his girlfriend hostage in an
urance company office for
lost three hours Tuesday,
n surrendered to police after
Iking with a federal magistrate
robation officers in Fort
tw
No one was injured in the
deal, which began when a man
entified as Richard Rollins, 25,
Fort Worth, fired one shot
'em an automatic weapon and
k the woman hostage at ab-
Yl* 12:30 p.m., said San Anto-
Yipio Deputy Police Chief Robert
Wpk'
! Rollins, who apparently took
Patricia Murphy hostage in a
r ,a omestic dispute, released her
c nharmed and surrendered to
olice at about 3:15 p.m.
Rollins surrendered after
leaking on a three-way tele-
f hone hook-up to FBI agents,
^ arole officers and U.S. Magis-
rate Alex McGlinchey in Fort
Vorth.
Rollins then went inside and
shouted, “Get the hell out of
here,” the witness reported.
Murphy, who had been at the
San Antonio office for only two
days, was held back by Rollins,
police spokesman David Sauce-
do said.
Before the surrender, police
Lt. Jimmy Kopec said Rollins in
dicated he would give up if he
could keep his weapon.
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“He shot in the air just to let
leople know he was coming,” a
fitness said.
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Voters go to polls
for Miami mayor
United Press International
MIAMI — Mayor Maurice
Ferre, bidding for a record sixth
term, took an early lead Tues
day night in his bitter re-election
battle against Cuban-born
lawyer Xavier Suarez.
Returns from four of Miami’s
85 precincts gave Ferre 827
votes to 166 for Suarez. The first
results were no surprise, be
cause most of the votes were
from black neighborhoods
where Ferre expected to capture
70 percent of the vote.
An hour before the polls
closed, election officials raised
their earlier forecast of a 63.7
percent turnout to 65 percent
for the mayoral runoff election.
Balmy, 80-degree weather
contributed to the turnout,
j which could be a record, officials
said.
Ferre, born into a wealthy
Puerto Rican family, and
Suarez, seeking to become the
city’s first mayor of Cuban herit
age, voted early in the day with
their families and agreed turn
out in the tight runoff election
would make the difference.
Of Miami’s 106,568 reg
istered voters, 36.7 percent are
Hispanic, 32.6 percent black
and 29.8 percent white.
Two ads plastered around
Miami reflected the bitterness of
the campaign. A Ferre ad said,
“Cubans want a Cuban Mayor!
Miami is ours, too! We can’t let
Reagan take control.”
At the same time, a Suarez ad
said in Spanish: “Cubans Vote
Cuban. Vote For One of Our
Own.”
Both Ferre, 48, and Suarez,
34, conceded the one-week
runoff was the nastiest in the ci
ty’s history and often degener
ated into a contest of name
calling and one-upmanship that
split the ethnically diverse city.
Each accused the other of in-
jecting racism and ethnic
appeals into the contest, while
both tried to best the other’s
credentials as an anti
communist who yearned for the
overthrow of Cuban leader
Fidel Castro.
But even as Ferre and Suarez
expressed regret about the tone
of the campaign, they pinned
their hopes on big ethnic voter
turnouts in the non-partisan
election.
Ferre, who beat back a chal
lenge from Cuban-born Manolo
Reboso in 1981 on the strength
of support from Miami’s blacks,
was counting again on the lion’s
share of black votes. Suarez was
pinning his hopes on a heavy
Hispanic vote.
group could be the key to vic
tory.
Ferre, a Democrat, was
appointed to take the reins of
Miami city government in 1973
when Mayor David Kennedy
resigned amid political scandal.
He has been elected five times
since then but faced his stiffest
challenge Tuesday from Suarez,
a Republican, Harvard-
educated lawyer who calls him
self a strong supporter of Presi
dent Reagan.
In the Nov. 8 primary, Suarez
stunned political observers by
finishing only 201 votes behind
Ferre in a race in which nearly
60,000 votes were cast.
The third element in Miami’s
mix — the white voters — was a
Q uestion mark and both candi-
ates said it was possible that
freeing of new gas from price
gradual lifting
gas by 1985.
The controversial comprom
ise was sent to the Senate floor by
an 11-9 vote of the committee —
but without recommendation.
In the House, a committee
headed by Rep. John Dingell, D-
Mich., also found itself deeply
divided as it began final shaping
of a natural gas bill to be sent to
the House floor.
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