[Blindmath] Drawing Graphs in College Level Math Course

[Jason White]

sarah.jevnikar at utoronto.ca <sarah.jevnikar at utoronto.ca> wrote:
> It saddens me that whole math classes would be waived for students,  
> seeminngly due only to the fear that they would be too challenging. 

I agree. It also puzzles me how this can be accomplished without adversely
affecting the student's education in other aspects of the course. The way it
works in this country (and it may be different elsewhere) is that at the
university level, for students in the sciences, engineering, economics and
other fields requiring a certain mathematical background, the mathematics
courses are prerequisites, or must be studied concurrently with, other
subjects in the student's chosen discipline. For good reasons, they are not
optional.

Interestingly, mathematics can be studied as part of an arts/humanities degree
it's the only subject I am aware of in the science faculties of universities
that is open to arts students. Thus, as an undergraduate, I had colleagues
who were studying both mathematics and philosophy in an arts course, which
actually turns out to be an excellent combination, given the close
relationship between the two disciplines in such areas as formal logic,
foundations of mathematics, and decision theory, just to mention the more
obvious examples.