> :>------------------------<snip>---------------------
> :>
> :>>>The summary of the Schonberg paper begins:
> :>>>1. Mathematics requirements in CS programs are  shrinking.
> 
> :>>It doesn't take a professional paper to realize that mathematics
> :>>requirements in virtually ALL curricula are shrinking in the USA.
The
> only  exception is
> :>>the mathematics specialty itself.
>
>
>  Rick Fochtman posted:
> 
> :>A point that should be obvious if anyone has ever confronted a
checkout
> :>clerk during a power failure. Around Greater Chicagoland, even many
> :>second graders are permitted to use calculators in class, to the
> :>detriment of arithmetic studies. :-(
>
>
>  Binyamin Dissen posted:
> 
> Mathematics ^= Arithmetic
> :>-----------------<unsnip>----------------------

Arithmetic is a subset of mathematics and if one can't do basic
arithmetic how will they ever be able to get other mathematical
concepts.



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