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Re: Go figure

From: Steve Luzader <sluzader@fre.fsu.umd.edu>
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 12:49:20 -0500

Richard W. Tarara wrote:

Just an anecdote:

.... However, (without calculator) they had mild difficulties with

finding the total resistance of two 10 ohm resistors in series and >_extreme_ difficulties with the resistors in parallel (despite having >worked with such combinations in lab the same week)...
? Rick

Having watched math education reach the point where most of my
college-level PHYSICS majors will use a calculator to multiply or
divide by 10, I'm not the least bit surprised by Rick's observation.

Steve Luzader
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Stephen Luzader
Frostburg State University
Frostburg, MD
http://antoine.fsu.umd.edu/phys/luzader

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