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...accurate within its framework. Learning this type of methodology can be useful not only for math or science, but more generally in constructing logical arguments for papers. Beside just the methodology of math, a familiarity with some of the subjects that would be included under a quantitative reasoning requirement (QRR) can also be very useful. The subjects spanned by this field would, like the rest of the Core, include much more than most of us were ever exposed to in high school...
...current QRR draws mixed response from students...
Deepak Sharma '97, who catagorizes the current Science Core courses as "pretty fluffy," says giving more weight to the QRR is a good idea...
...There are a lot of people here who just study for the QRR the night before, pass it and never look at a math textbook again...
Susan W. Lewis, director of the Core program, estimates that a QRR area would require one to one-and-a-half years of recruiting professors and reviewing course proposals before it could begin offering classes...