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From: pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg)
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Subject: Re: Subtle Math Questions
Message-ID: <1991Apr24.142835.26475@mccc.edu>
Date: 24 Apr 91 14:28:35 GMT
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In article <2731@ttardis.UUCP> mjo@ttardis.UUCP (Mike O'Connor) writes:
=In article <1991Apr23.014114.3603@ms.uky.edu>, ghot@ms.uky.edu (Allan Adler) writes:
=Why do I get this picture in my head of a college math department swarming
=on a local high school, ousting the current regime of high school math
=teachers, and replacing with a brand-new, more highly educated regime
=?
=
=What I'd really like to see is for "you" to teach these budding HS 
=math teachers better, so "we" don't have to suffer through their
=miseducation!


I think you'll find that the majority of primary and secondary school
math teachers do not get their math education from a college's math
department in "regular" math courses but either from a regular college's
math department's special math courses for wannabes, OR from the math
departments of teachers colleges!!  :-(  In either case, the students
are not expected to learn much math at all.  (My ex-wife is now a HS
math teacher and her education matches the "ed major" model implied above.)

Pete
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