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Program trains math supervisors Thirty math teachers from 11 South Carolina counties are participating in a special program this semester at USC to train math supervisors. The orogram is funded by a $16, .05 grant from the S. C. Commission on Higher Education. It brings the math teachers to the USC campus one night each week this spring semester and to a workshop here this summer where they will help children having problems in math. ''Our new program,1 says director Jack M. Ott, "is unlike any ever con ducted in South Carolina before, and I'm not aware of another in the country exactly like it." Dr. Ott, who has taught math from the fifth grade to college level and formerly headed the Test Develop ment Center at Ohio State University, explained that previously one studied to be a mathematics supervisor for a South Carolina school district by taking advanced courses in mathematics and other ccurses in educational supervisien. Ott's new program, however, consists of courses specifically for su per visor s of mathematics. "There has been more change in the instructional programs of mathematics in the past 15 years than in any similar length of time in history,'' Ott said. This spring teachers in the program, are being introduced to available math materials, new curriculum ideas, orien tation programs for math teachers, and to the special problems that students have with math, according to Ott. This summer, he con tinued, each teacher in the program will spend two hours a day working with two elementary of high school students who have math problems. ''Our idea,'' Ott said, ''is that if teachers don't understand student math problems, it's ,hard for them to supervise math teachers facing these poblems." An Carolyn Nettleton (left), shares flower arranging kno seventh grade girl scout V Notab in thei Southeastern Theatre Conference participants will be John Patrick, author of "Tea House of the August Moon," Fred Garrett, manager of the Negro Ensemble, and other theatre notables. Some 1,500 persons representing educational children's, and community theatre organizations are expected to attend the annual convention, March 1-4. USC and Columbia College Theatres, are the meetings' hosts, along with the Town Theatre of Columbia, with special assistance from the S. C. Arts Commission. Panel and symposium discussions on relevant theatre topics are scheduled. Participants other than Patrick and Garrett will be Joe Layton, Emmy award-winning director of ''No Strings;'' James Bakkom, master property man of the Tyrone Gutherie Theatre, Min neapolis; and RoIf F jelde, author of the original drama ''Rafferty One by One,'' which the USC Theatre will produce as part of the convention proceedings. South Carolina's Russell Green will direct the F jelde play, scheduled for March 2 for S ET C memnbers with manging flower USC junior, Flower arranc wiedge with course. ivi Simons. les to take atre confere additional productions for the public on March 3-4, all at USC's Drayton Hall. Two other drama of ferings are scheduled by the hosts: "The Wizard of Oz" by Columbia College Theatre and "A Cry of Players" by the Town Theatre of Columbia. Other major activities of the convention will include summer theater auditions in which more than 500 actors, singers and dancers will try out for roles in summer theatres throughout the country, including the University of South Carolina's own summer program at the TERM PAPERS! 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