Bill wrote:
In my years of teaching experience, students who came to college without the equivalent of "college algebra" were under-prepared for what was expected of them.
This could be simply because it weeds out people who aren't good at the required style of thinking. If that's true, anything that exercises mathematical thinking should have the same effect. There just doesn't happen to be anything else in the mainstream education curriculum that does that. -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
