Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 3, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Voters offered three choices Tuxedo Heights voters have three choices in tomorrows civic Bielec Tion Obill an articulate Rhodes scholar who admits he Doest have All the answers Titony a sales representative who promises to be noisy and noticed at City Hall d Peter a Cowkey architect who says his grit is below the surface in exceedingly none of them was any match last night for Roger Moore or Julie an while those two stars were on Only 16 people showed up Lor a town Hall meeting at Bury High but the three men continued any raps flip flopping a University of Manitoba lashed out at City councils flip flopping on such issues As nonprofit housing and the setting up of an Independent citizens Library he promised he also said he would fight for a Freedom Fin formation bylaw and the hiring of an ombudsman to look into citizen com sees Winnipeg As a resource capital of taking Over from Calgary or our particular resource hydroelectric would ban flights he would outlaw air plane flights Over Winnipeg Between Midnight and 6 to Cut noise his first move would be to take Down the no left turn Between 4 and 6 sign at Wellington Crescent and Park Boule people cannot get he says Winnipeg needs a Good dose of positive thinking to encourage growth and that what he especially is prepared to transportation bothers him especially trains that keep him fuming in rus hour surely if this must be there is a better time and about voters will be going to the polls tomorrow in the free december u of m plans to a to program drilling holes in stereotypes Ethan works hard on his project at a women in trades association carpentry workshop saturday at women place on Alexander the purpose of the workshop was to combat the development in children of stereotyped role models for the Odds of building strike seem slim by Glen Mackenzie spokesmen for Manitoba construction workers and contractors Are optimistic there wont be a strike in the Industry in Leo president of the build ring trades Council which represents said saturday con labor and management have always thought the other Side was out get but i think the screwing Days Are he told reporters after a Day closed meeting of about 145 and government repro the Winnipeg j Cliff Board chairman of the labor relations association of said i feel there been Confidence built up through id like to think we could get through 1980 without a Desilets and Olson based their optimism on the fact the seminar was held and on increased communication in recent one year even six months this seminar could not have they said in a joint honest attempt but now when we meet its an honest attempt to reach a new under standing and to build a real management and re Alizes our past antagonisms didst fur ther the growth and Prosperity of our the statement George chairman of the labor relations Council Winnipeg builders said better labor management relations Are needed for the Industry to survive because Mani Tobas construction Market is shrink contracts covering about work ers in 18 construction unions expire april the 1978 strike resulted in an estimated lost working As about skilled tradespeople have left the province in the past two Desilets said higher construction wages in British Columbia and Alberta Are eaten up by a higher Cost of he and Olson agreed Saskatchewan and Alberta can guarantee Lon term employment because they have projects which will take five to 10 years to Olson said he opposes governments building projects just for the Sake of but the Manitoba government should Start work on planned Northern Manitoba Hydro projects to provide Job he agreements needed Campbell chairman of the Manitoba labor management re View said hydroelectric Power can be sold once agreements with Alberta and the United states have been he also said that for every three jobs in such a primary service jobs would be the committee has led to establish ment of joint problem solving commit tees in each Trade and a joint construction Industry committee including construction association and trades Council by Manfred Jager starting next the University of Manitoba Hopes to persuade Many of its undergraduate students to take their bachelors degrees in four instead of three to do the University must first receive approval from the governments universities Grants com Manitoba Law requires com Mission approval before any program changes can be regardless of How Little they Cost approval is expected with Little diff but May require some Consulta the Dean of arts at the u of said last week the new advanced arts degree can be offered with existing staff and weigh in at All when it comes to budget 20 courses required the degree will mean students take 20 instead of the traditional 15 full courses leading to a bachelors previously students have had to de Clare themselves As majoring in one discipline As sociology or psychology by taking five of the 15 courses in that Field with three full courses constituting a minor in one other the advanced program would have different requiring the Stu Dent to major in a Given Field by taking at least but no More than 10 full Stambrook said the advanced Bache lors degree decided on by the u of m Senate in Early november and ratified by the schools Board of governors recently is planned in order to give undergraduates a More rounded deepened program revision it is the first revision of the Tys undergraduate program since about Stambrook the program proposal has just gone to the universities Grants commission and will Likely come under consideration when commission makes up its mind on the size of Grants for Manito Bas three universities for the 198081 fiscal year later this the advanced degree will allow our students to specialize to a greater de Gree than has been possible in the Bob a senior assistant to u of m president Ralph Camp said it will make the whole educational process for them More meaningful and at the same Raeburn indicated the University int exactly holding out Hope of being swamped by applications from people wanting the enriched pro both Saskatchewan and Alberta have been offering advanced degrees since the Early 1970s now and eager to ence there has been that about 10 per cent of undergraduates Avail them selves of the enriched Rae Burn Hopes to match others by making course structures particularly attractive and tempting Here the u of m Hopes to match or better the experience inthe two other Western sources at the University of Winnipeg said yesterday the school is preparing its own plans for the introduction of a fou year How final proposals Are not Likely w reach the universities Grants Sion until next summer or introduction of the fou year program would take place in the fall of the u of w spokesman said its too Early to discuss details of the proposed program other than it will involve major studies programs consisting of eight to 10 courses Over the 20iourse an official of Brandon University said the school has been offering a a honors program for some involving an extra year of study but no expanded majors addresses needs the Brandon official said the pro Gram addresses the measured academic needs of the areas population particularly since Brandon University offers no postgraduate studies beyond the bachelors introduction of the advanced u of m undergraduate program coincides with the decision by the University of Toron to this month to Shelve its open ended approach to undergraduate in which 15 full courses or equivalent were required Over a three year Peri but students id major i any Given the system was commonly referred to As the cafeteria approach to univer sity Art Dean of the universe Tys largest faculty with its Stu dents the University of Manitoba by comparison Enrols about people in its Bachelor of arts program at any Given time students were graduating without any breadth or depth of study because they were allowed to pick whatever subjects they wanted not require to indicate any particular thrust in their program of will fight plans student leaders at the University of Toronto undergraduate level have indicated they will fight plans to abolish open ended Gerry free press eager fingers figure Large in effective math instruction Glenda Waugh praises effectiveness of Chisa Bop fingertip math which she uses to Grade i class at Rocic word by Laurie Streich before students used to hate now they Are passing de manding math Homework from their teachers and teaching fingertip math to their in 16 years of teaching i Haven seen Many kids who enjoy said Margaret who teaches fingertip math to but Chi san Bop makes it so much and its so personal that once they know they never forget since Margaret and Dave Froese were introduced to they have conducted fingertip math work shops for at least 163 teachers and expect to have taught 300 by Christ the workshops have kept her Froese and she count the schools that had implemented the she estimated that in the last year at least 55 schools in Winni Peg school division have one or More teachers with touch math in two of those there is a teacher with the training at every level from Nursery to Grade every math teacher in lord Selkirk school Divi Sion has the program and Shaugh Nessy Park school has implemented Chisa Bop in All Only the its made much faster Progress than i thought it Froese said at a recent but its Only the she Chisa Bop which in korean liter ally Means counting on the fingers was developed 30 years ago by a korean Abacus expert and uses the fingers to count to with larger numbers being carried Over by Mem Ory or written the right hand thumb has a place value of while each Finger represents an additional the left hand thumb stands for 50 and each Finger counts children count and calculate by pressing the appropriate Fin Gers lightly on the table in front of beat calculator Froese has seen a lot of meth ods come and go each one attempt ing to clarify difficult and intangible math but after she and her husband who teaches math at Kelvin High school saw children using Chisan Bop beat a calculator on the tonight show in the summer of they decided to attend a Chisa Bop work shop in at their own now both feel Safe in saying Chi san Bop by using their children can feel the numbers and understand what they Froese with traditional teaching a child might not understand the by the time the teacher finds its difficult to isolate the but with you can Tell immediately if a message has sunk in because they wont be Able to per form the next fingertip math takes a much greater output from the teacher who is not Only checking for Correct but looking at several pairs of hands As its a learning experience Condu Cive to raising students self image n and it removes much of the anxiety children experience when learning for those who worry that children might be stuck using their fingers for Froese said by about Grade 5 or students have to Stop using their fingers to count out each num they automatically begin calculating in their Heads As math questions become More the Success rate is evident after talking to teachers using the pro i can explain things much easier than every said Marylou one of three Grade 1 teach ers using fingertip math at Elmdale school in they do their math it becomes a part of Driedger said her students Are adding numbers to 20 and she expects they will have started multiplying by the end of the year something that is not on the Grade 1 regular Speed tests Glenda laughs Grade 2 class at Rock Cpd school in Winnipeg has been using Chisa Bop exclusively for All their math work since septem the children Are not that far ahead of other Grade 2 but Are doing things other Grade twos do like adding Long columns of said Waugh works with the Chil Dren in Small groups and Speed tests them regularly to ensure they can Complete operations within time her students also get a 10minute Drill first thing every morning to improve their manual at the beginning of the some of the children complained that their hands were she some of them had to practice with a Little Ball for at Cecil Rhodes Junior a Grade 7 class has been using Chisan Bop since october to do math questions i even have thought to give them said teacher Bill trouble with concepts students in the class Are those who have had trouble understanding math concepts since the first year of school and have never gone past multiplication and division of whole now they Are adding columns of figures four Down and four Caughlin there finally succeeding in math and Are really excited about he no other method of understanding math concepts Ever worked Caughlin prize student is one who went from a score of five of 42 Correct on a three minute Speed test at the beginning of the year to 38 of 42 Correct on a two minute test in no everybody has increased in Speed and after Only a months he the one thing that concerns Froese is that children be Given enough time to learn the dont push too she warns take the time and work with them until they they have to be Able to do it like that that takes about a she but its Worth ;