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Math Skills Always Lag Current Course

Authored by: artp on Wednesday, April 17 2013 @ 01:33 PM EDT

In the University I attended, the professors would simplify
their teaching by assuming that the student already knew
some prerequisite. Many flounderings while assimilating the
required - but not taught - material later, we were better
students, and had a better grip on the subject matter.

In freshmen year, we were given an account on the
undergraduate HP-3000 with 65,535 minutes of time. They
assumed that we knew how to program. I had one course which
assumed that I knew CDC Cyber Interactive Fortran. That one
blew my brain into smithereens.

At the time, it was infuriating. "As should be intuitively
obvious to the most casual observer..." But it taught us how
to learn, and that is more valuable than any factoid that
they could have hammered into our heads.

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Userfriendly on WGA server outage:
When you're chained to an oar you don't think you should go down when the galley
sinks ?

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