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From: mjo@ttardis.UUCP (Mike O'Connor)
Newsgroups: comp.edu,sci.math,sci.misc,ut.general,uw.general,uw.math.grad,york.general
Subject: Re: Subtle Math Questions
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Date: 22 Apr 91 06:22:21 GMT
Organization: Artificial Intelligence Society
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In article <1991Apr21.194019.352@ms.uky.edu>, ghot@ms.uky.edu (Allan Adler) writes:

>schools, it is reasonable to ask: for what purpose will these questions
>be used ? For competency testing of teachers (i.e., the development of a 
>product to be sold to politicians who probably could not pass such a test
>either) or as course materials for people planning to become teachers ?

Whoa...  sounds like you're getting a bit defensive there.  Why don't you
ASK the poster what his/her point was rather than make all sorts of 
presumptions and insinuations?

>The level of the questions suggested by Roy Wood by way of example also
>raise some questions. Are high school math teachers going to be expected

If I remember right, he gave only one question as an example.  It seems
to me that you're reading too much into all of this.




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