home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!alpha.ces.cwru.edu!somos
- From: somos@ces.cwru.edu (Michael Somos)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Minimum standards for math "competency"
- Date: 23 Nov 1992 23:28:34 GMT
- Organization: Computer Engineering and Science, Case Western Reserve University
- Lines: 21
- Message-ID: <1erpf2INN338@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- References: <1992Nov23.021123.22797@linus.mitre.org>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: george.ces.cwru.edu
- Keywords: math competency education university college standards
-
-
- Is everyone else fed up with this thread too? There have always
- been and always will be students who don't have any clue when it
- comes to mathematics? Aren't you just quibbling over the relative
- percentages? And finally, if the situation is really so bad, then
- why are there so many people with a lot of mathematical knowledge
- who are underemployed or unemployed? For details look at recent
- issues of Notices of the AMS. Something is very wrong, but it is
- not what people are saying it is.
-
- Also realize that there is no consensus on this. There is a wide
- variety of opinions. If everyone agreed on what the problem was,
- there would be rapid progress on solving it. This is absolutely
- not the case now. I won't bore you with any of my own opinions,
- but point out that this has nothing to do with mathematics per se.
- It is a general cultural problem and pervades many areas. Let us
- drop this thread, and let us enjoy mathematics while we can. At
- least that is what I think this news group is for. There are many
- other news groups for other kinds of discussion. Shalom, Michael
- --
- Michael Somos <somos@alpha.ces.cwru.edu> (* No, I don't work for CWRU *)
-