Xref: utzoo comp.edu:1739 sci.math:5278 sci.physics:5378 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!ucla-cs!mahimahi!verma From: verma@mahimahi.cs.ucla.edu (Rodent of Darkness) Newsgroups: comp.edu,sci.math,sci.physics Subject: Re: Student preparedness Message-ID: <19252@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Date: 3 Jan 89 18:53:54 GMT References: <605@ucrmath.EDU> <6578@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> Sender: news@CS.UCLA.EDU Reply-To: verma@mahimahi.cs.ucla.edu (Rodent of Darkness) Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Lines: 10 In article <6578@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> elg@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Eric Green) writes: >table, and work yet more arithmetic problems. In the fourth grade >they'll introduce division, and "fractions".... Speaking of division and "fractions" once had a teacher who said that division and fractions had nothing to do with each other. To this day I have no idea as to why she said this. ---TS