Re: Why do so many people hate or have trouble with math? Your input is needed!

From: "Gene Ward Smith" <genewardsmith@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: 5 Oct 2006 15:45:10 -0700

Arturo Magidin wrote:

I mean, I just had an exam with
a very big prominent instruction to give extact answers and not
approximations, with explicit examples of what to do and what not to
do (including, explicitly, "Use pi, no 3.14"), only to have about
1/4-th of the students blithely replace every fraction with a one
digit decimal approximation, and e and pi with its decimal
approximation to the hundredths.....

How did you grade it?

.

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