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  1. Newsgroups: sci.math
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  3. From: nickh@CS.CMU.EDU (Nick Haines)
  4. Subject: Re: High Prices of Math Books. I am pissed.
  5. In-Reply-To: martin@lyra.cis.umassd.edu's message of Fri, 8 Jan 1993 05:19:57 GMT
  6. Message-ID: <C0Jr87.3to.1@cs.cmu.edu>
  7. Originator: nickh@SNOW.FOX.CS.CMU.EDU
  8. Sender: news@cs.cmu.edu (Usenet News System)
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  10. Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
  11. References: <BEVAN.93Jan6215256@panda.cs.man.ac.uk>
  12.     <1993Jan7.170536.28221@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
  13.     <thompson.726445179@daphne.socsci.umn.edu>
  14.     <1993Jan8.012016.11134@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
  15.     <MARTIN.93Jan8001957@lyra.cis.umassd.edu>
  16. Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 17:57:25 GMT
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  19. In article <MARTIN.93Jan8001957@lyra.cis.umassd.edu> martin@lyra.cis.umassd.edu (Gary Martin) writes:
  20.  
  21.    [about set texts]
  22.  
  23.    [...]
  24.  
  25.    most of the students would feel lost without it.  Most of them don't
  26.    know how to take useable lecture notes and couldn't choose a reasonable
  27.    book to accompany the course on their own.
  28.  
  29.    [...]
  30.  
  31. Maybe American universities should concentrate on teaching their
  32. intake how to be students, before trying to teach them mathematics?
  33.  
  34. :-)/2
  35.  
  36. Nick Haines nickh@cmu.edu
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