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- From: hougen@vision.csl.uiuc.edu (Darrell Roy Hougen)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Mattel says "Math is tough."
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- Date: 15 Oct 92 15:59:13 GMT
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- mbk@jacobi.ucsd.edu (Matt Kennel) writes:
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- *>Perhaps then, a good solutions, would be for teachers and TA's to specifically
- *>organize problem sessions and encourage full participation by all students,
- *>especially those who seem to be out of the social mainstream in the
- *>class.
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- I am of the opinion that people that do the problems by themselves
- learn the subject better and learn how to think more clearly too. Of
- course, there is a point of diminishing return for any problem at
- which time a person should admit that s/he needs help or at least a
- different perspective. However, it helps to be stubborn :-)
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- Darrell
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