His mother evacuated the family, and they joined Abdi's father in Yemen, where he was teaching math.
She was teaching math and science at a teachers' college several miles south of her hometown, Cesenatico, when she met Mr. Hazan.
He was teaching math at Horace Mann, a private school in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, when the nascent sit-in movement drew him south in 1960.
In fall 2015, Auel was teaching Math 350, Yale's foundational abstract algebra course, for the first time.
FIRST START, THEN FIRST WIN Bobby Cramer, 30, who four years ago was teaching math in high school, won his big-league debut with the visiting Oakland Athletics, allowing four hits and a run in five and a third innings of a 3-1 victory against the Kansas City Royals.
Still, the next morning I doggedly called the college and yes, his wife was teaching math there.
Winifred, my wife, was teaching math in the Cairo-American College, a high school, because they couldn't get teachers due to the crisis.
Cooper recalled being taught math in high school by a Haitian immigrant, Yves Volel, who ultimately returned to his country and was assassinated while running for president.
Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, an architect of apartheid who became Prime Minister in 1958, declared in 1953 that "the natives will be taught from childhood to realize that equality with Europeans is not for them". Why, Mr. Verwoerd asked, should a black child be taught math when the menial labors for which he was destined wouldn't require it?
Mr. Unz is the Silicon Valley entrepreneur who almost single-handedly financed and organized the initiative that has all but eliminated bilingual education in California, in which students were taught math, social studies and science in their native language until they gradually picked up English.
But the circumstances surrounding his departure are as murky as the results of his ambitious efforts to reform the way that U.S. children are taught math and science.
