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To: TaxRelief
With all do respect, the only thing required to teach math is a math teacher.

Twenty-five years ago, maybe. Now, without teaching discrete mathematics and computational methods such a department would be incompetent and a degree program deficient. You can't even teach a responsible course in statistics without computers because they are necessary for even the most rudimentary multivariate experiments. Without a degree program, what kind of professors are you going to get? This isn't about high school math or simple calculus, most of which should be done before the college level and IS in many other industrialized countries.

The core curriculum reading list, Malaspina Books, not only includes works by Jane Austin, Aristotle or DaVinci, but it also includes the great discourses of Einstein, Faraday and Newton.

Woopie. There are lots of "great books" lists out there.

63 posted on 05/18/2004 7:11:35 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (There are people in power who are truly evil.)
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To: Carry_Okie

This is a Christian College. Is it not possible that a Christian math professor would be relieved to teach in a Christian environment?

There are many, many highly qualified math professors teaching in community colleges all across the country, despite the fact that those institutions have no "degree programs".

It is not necessary to offer degree programs in order to provide quality classes in a variety of disciplines.


68 posted on 05/18/2004 8:05:13 PM PDT by TaxRelief (Keep your kids safe; keep W in the White House.)
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