Word: qrr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Facing sharp questioning at last night's Undergraduate Council meeting, Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence cautiously admitted to flaws in the Quantitative Reasoning Requirement (QRR), section quality, and recruiting of junior faculty...
Members of the evaluation team concluded theQuantitative Reasoning Requirement (QRR) "offersno guarantee that the students have a meaningfullevel of manipulative skills much less anunderstanding of quantitative and logicalreasoning and the essence of mathematics as adiscipline...
...yesterday defended the QRR but said theremay be room for improvement...
...others said there is some value to the concepts behind the QRR. Lori L. Outzs '91 said, "Students should know how to use the computers, but not necessarily freshman year. They should have four years to fulfill the requirements...
...Athan C. Tolis '91, however, said he favors the QRR concept. "Something even more than the QRR should be imposed. People should in some way be exposed to calculus," he said...