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From: livesey@sun.uucp (Jon Livesey)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.edu,comp.cog-eng
Subject: Re: Becoming CAI literate
Message-ID: <42772@sun.uucp>
Date: 22 Feb 88 22:46:10 GMT
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In article <3649@mtgzz.UUCP>, avr@mtgzz.UUCP (XMRP50000[jcm]-a.v.reed) writes:
> In article <3437@killer.UUCP>, elg@killer.UUCP (Eric Green) writes:
> > .....
> > the "tunnel", where we learn that he, a high school student, has passed well
> > beyond Calculus in his mathematics education -- and that such is the norm for
> > high school students in his society. What an optimist Heinlein was!
> 
> Only by North American standards. In the Lukasiewicz curriculum (used
> in Poland and, in slightly modified form, in Hungary, Japan and Korea)
> the Calculus is taught in the 5th and 6th grades.
> 					Adam Reed (mtgzz!avr)

	Seconded.   When I attended High School in the UK, we attacked
the Calculus starting at age fourteen.     When I started to teach CS 
undergraduates in the US, I was amazed by what they did not know.

Jon.