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From: shankar@haarlem.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Son of Knuth)
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Subject: Re: Teaching Math etc.
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Date: 13 Mar 89 04:39:32 GMT
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In article <10989@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> elm@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (ethan miller) writes:
> [Discussion about why freshman/sophomore math classes are so poorly thought]
>The solution is probably smaller classes and more intellectually
>challenging work, ...

And students who don't complain the first time they see a problem which
isn't a trivial rephrasing of a problem in the text.


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