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A few years later , when we had introduced Math 100 for these Level 5 students , a pretest , on the first day of the course , showed that only half of them could calculate correctly how much each student gained when three pizzas were divided equally among four of them.The years following 1965 were academic disasters across the country . In 1965 , eight percent of the freshmen students demonstrated no skills in elementary algebra on the mathematics placement tests . For more information , see http://www.mathprog.org/prz/fulkerson.htm#winners [ 1 ] . For the past twelve years , he has been Dean of the College of Mathematical and Physical Sciences . This problem may be solved with elementary methods , however one can see that generalizations might be much tougher : suppose instead we ask how many strings of 0 's and 1 's of length n there are in which any ten consecutive symbols contain between three and seven 1 's ? To do this , use the following command chmod 644 . The Ohio General Assembly provided a $ 500,000 matching Grant to the University for establishing the Chair . In particular he gave a simple recursive formula which generates the sequence 1 , 1 , 12 , 620 , 87304 , etc. In 1965 , about 11 % of the entering freshmen on the Columbus Campus in the Autumn Quarter placed Level 1 , ready for Calculus or better , and about 8 % of them placed Level 5 , very clearly needing some remedial mathematics before they were ready to take any College-level mathematics course . As a starting point , we consider the following easily posable question : how many strings of 0 's and 1 's of length n are there which do not contain two 1 's in a row ? " When the freshman arrives on campus , usually at Orientation before formal admission , we subject him or her to an advisory Math Placement Examination , that has remained of demonstrably constant standard since 1965 . We in the College will miss his wit and his support.To some extent I find it odd that , as Dean for the last twelve years of what is clearly the strongest research College at The Ohio State University ( my colleagues in other colleges will excuse me , I 'm sure ) the accomplishment in which I take most pride is the effect that the efforts of members of our College have had on the high-school preparation of our entering freshmen , particularly in mathematics.The Ohio Revised Code , which controls our admissions policy , states , in part : " A graduate of the twelfth grade shall be entitled to admission without examination to any college or university which is supported wholly or in part by the state ...