Bermuda Triangle Reports and New Reader Contacts
Author of The Bermuda Triangle discusses widespread reader responses since 1975 and outlines the Triangle’s mystery. Reports describe anomalous electromagnetic effects, luminous fogs, time losses, phantom craft, and unexplained disappearances across the Western Atlantic Triangle near Bermuda, Florida, and the 40 degree meridian. Tomorrow: messages from the missing.
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Bermuda Triangle
United States
Navy
Air Force
Atlantic
Bermuda
Florida
Lubbock High Expands Computer Math Program
Ramona Hicks helps Richard Wheeler program a computer at Lubbock High School as part of the 1976-77 expansion of the district computer math program. Sheldon Greene studies a problem beside them in the staff photo by Peter Ashkenas.
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Ramona Hicks
Richard Wheeler
Lubbock High School
Sheldon Greene
Lubbock High
Peter Ashkenas
Murfee Elementary’s Classmate 88 Motivates Students
Murfee Elementary teacher Carolyn Solomon uses the Litton Classmate 88 calculator to customize math drills for fifth graders. The device provides 10 problem homework sets across operations and ranges, offers immediate feedback, tracks errors, and even generates cross-number puzzles and fraction decimal practice to boost engagement.
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Mona Harvey
Avalanche-Journal
Murfee Elementary
Litton Industries
Carolyn Solomon
Classmate 88
Classmate 48
Solomon
Computers Play No Favorites At Lubbock High
Lubbock High added two Wang 2200 A computers in 1976 77 to expand the computer math program. The units travel between schools, teaching juniors and seniors to program solve step by step and think logically. Students enjoy the interactive, repeatable computations and the final class project prints a teacher letter.
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Jeff South
Avalanche-Journal
Lubbock High School
Lubbock High
Monterey
Coronado
Harlan Smith
Dunbar
Estacado
Ramona Hicks
Lubbock
Smith
Gadgets Make Math Class More Attractive
Resourceful math teachers turn multiplication drills into game based learning at Mahon and Tubbs Elementary. Chess darts and digital machines engage students with timed problem solving and calculator puzzles while three teachers support each class.
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Mona Harvey
Avalanche-Journal
Mahon Elementary
Marilyn Stevens
Misses Stevens
Kathy Keeton
Miss Stevens
Miss Keeton
Mahon
Keeton
Tubbs Elementary
Tubbs
Bean
Youngest Students Use Calculators in Math Lessons
Lub bock ISD math consultant Dan McPherson notes calculators and drill machines are used as motivational tools and skill reinforcement rather than teaching carriers. Machines like Little Professor and Digitor provide targeted drills, instant feedback, and scoring to guide planned activities. Summer programs at Wheelock Murfee Hardwick and Stewart elementary schools will feature these math devices.
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Dan McPherson
Lubbock Independent School District
McPherson
Wheelock
Murfee
Hardwick
Stewart
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