Summer Math Project

THE Math Department's Computation Center has been selected to play a key role in the National Science Foundation's eight-week summer session this year. Three mathematics teachers, selected from the nation's secondary schools, will study highspeed digital computing under a program which provides research experience for science and mathematics teachers. Of the fifty colleges and universities participating in the program, Dartmouth is the only institution offering a program in computation.

Directed by Thomas E. Kurtz, assistant professor of mathematics and head of the Computation Center, the three teachers will learn both numerical use of computers and their application in such non-numerical areas as language translation and library reference work.

While studying at the Center, the teachers will use the LGP-30, a small digital computer, which possesses all the major features of the larger instruments. As they work with computers, they will explore new ways of introducing their students to computing and its impact on technological change in this country.

Although no geographical preference will be shown, special announcements have been sent to mathematics teachers in the New England area. Each participant selected for the National Science Foundation program will receive a stipend of $75 a week and travel allowance.