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From: landman%hanami@Sun.COM (Howard A. Landman)
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Subject: Re: Student preparedness
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Date: 13 Jan 89 07:47:04 GMT
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In article <19252@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> verma@mahimahi.cs.ucla.edu (Rodent of Darkness) writes:
>	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.

My first grade teacher taught that there was no such thing as a negative
number.  It took me three years to figure out she was wrong, but when I
did, I was furious for a month.  I never COMPLETELY trusted a teacher
after that.  It made for some interesting exchanges in class when I thought
that something wrong had been said or written (hey, MOST of the time I was
right!).

	Howard A. Landman
	landman@hanami.sun.com