Word: cores
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...example, Core science classes are restrained from using more than elementary mathematics, she says. "This really shouldn't be happening at Harvard," she says. "Harvard does share a responsibility to set the tone for what goes...
...report's most pressing curricular concern is the failure of the QRR and the absence of mathematical instruction in the Core Curriculum. "The current quantitative reasoning test offers no guarantee that the students have a meaningful level of manipulative skills, much less an understanding of quantitative and logical reasoning and the essence of mathematics as a discipline," the report reads...
These mathematical shortcomings in Harvard's curriculum affect the teaching of science, Gray says, because such expertise cannot be assumed. "Some of the noted authorities in scientific fields [at Harvard] felt that what they could offer non-majors within the Core was greatly inhibited," she says...
...with the conclusions of the report as they relate to the QRR. "It is true that the present QRR requirements are not at a very high level," he says. "There has been some discussion to upgrade the program," says Wolcowitz, who is a member of the subcommittee of the Core...
Wolcowitz says that such revisions could take the form of more challenging quantitative requirements or a third science Core requirement on mathematics. "There is no sense that the QRR specifically teaches any mathematical disciplines such as calculas," he says...