Re: [MATHEDCC] L.A. Times article

FilKambel@AOL.COM
Sun, 4 Apr 1999 12:43:23 EDT

In a message dated 3/30/1999 10:23:47 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
sandyw@best.com writes:

<< I think it is possible however make a required class - as some CC's have
done - that would be as defensible as these offerings. >>

naturally, perhaps, and in my own self-interest, i'd recommend basic
statistics-sense courses; not the sort that emphasize the derivation of
t-test p values, et. al., but which explore the interpretation of descriptive
and inferential stats. lovely stuff -- and also more readily "sold" as useful
to the average CC student (although one should be able to sell the study of
"modeling" -- algebra -- pretty nicely, too).

:phil campbell
too lazy to type upper case
college of the desert, ca
the palm valley school, ca
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