Re: [MATHEDCC] Just a question.

Sandra CHANDLER (tcchans@tc.cc.va.us)
Tue, 17 Nov 1998 11:14:33 -0500

I'd have to say, I thought it might be me. I only have a few students =
this semester that actually think you have to look at the math and algebra =
outside of class. Everyday I remind them to look at the next section =
before coming to class. It seems most are not remembering what we did in =
the class before. =20

:-) :-) Maybe we can blame it on the rotation of the cylindrical earth =
Robert L Kimball told us about. The weather has been unusually warm here. =
:-) :-) =20

Sandra Rena Chandler
Instructor of Mathematics
Thomas W. Moss, Jr. Campus
Tidewater Community College
Norfolk, Virginia 23510
tcchans@tc.cc.va.us
http://www.tc.cc.va.us/faculty/tcchans
757-822-1335
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"Mathematics is the alphabet with which God has written the universe." -- =
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
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>>> Bret Taylor <bret@IAG.NET> 11/16 5:29 PM >>>
I'm doing any formal survey, but just want to know if we are alone at =
LSCC.
We are a small public, open door, community college. We have 6 faculty
members in math who have been here at least 4 years. (4 have been here at
least 10 years.)

All of us have noticed a dramatic decrease in the ability, and/or work =
ethic
of our students this term. Not just one particular class. Not just first
time in college students. But, from developmental arithmetic through =
Calculus.

Not really looking for a philosophical debate on the topic. More just
wondering if anybody else has noticed the same thing. Hopefully, it is a
one semester aberration. (Something about stastically speaking, we can
predict that unusual events will occur, we just can't predict when or =
where.)

Bret Taylor Lake-Sumter Community College Leesburg FL

"It matters not the subject taught, nor all the books on all the shelves.
What matters more, yes most of all, is what the teachers are themselves."
John Wooden

John 3: 3^3 + 3

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