91.   One student may be doing fractions, another word problems and a third pre-algebra.

92.   One way the university does this is by letting prospective students do most of their admissions paperwork through the mail and doing admissions consultations over the phone.

93.   Others are training students to do high-tech PowerPoint presentations, or using graphics programs to walk through physics and math experiments in the classrooms.

94.   One student did the counting, another did the division and the other two drew the chart.

95.   Only South Carolina students did worse.

96.   Perhaps as a result, Japanese students do very well in international mathematics comparisons with questions that are purely equations.

97.   Participants also achieved better academic performance in later grades than did other students.

98.   Riegle last year started teaching an education course over the Internet, where students did all of their classwork, research and discussion without sitting in a classroom.

99.   Schroeder, the superintendent, also hopes to judge elementary instruction by how students later do on college entrance exams.

100.   Research suggests that American students do about as much homework in a week as their Japanese counterparts do in a single day.