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  2. From: hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.math
  4. Subject: Re: who should teach mathematics?
  5. Message-ID: <BxM0n9.JFB@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
  6. Date: 12 Nov 92 15:35:29 GMT
  7. References: <1992Nov10.223300.19016@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
  8. Sender: news@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (USENET News)
  9. Organization: Purdue University Statistics Department
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  11.  
  12. In article <1992Nov10.223300.19016@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> tep2j@amsun.apma.Virginia.EDU (Todd E. Peterson) writes:
  13. >I am interested in hearing net.opinions on the following:
  14.  
  15. >Is it a good or bad practice to use non-mathematicians to
  16. >teach mathematics courses?  In particular, what about the
  17. >use of engineering faculty to teach engineering calculus
  18. >courses, and other applied mathematics courses?
  19.  
  20. If they can teach it mathematically, it would be appropriate to have
  21. them do so in the mathematics department. 
  22.  
  23. This problem is especially bad in statistics, where it is often the
  24. case that most statistics is taught by psychologists and social scientists
  25. who know nothing about the problems, but only methodology.
  26. -- 
  27. Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399
  28. Phone: (317)494-6054
  29. hrubin@snap.stat.purdue.edu (Internet, bitnet)  
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