I was appalled at the editorial about the walkout in Math 101. Where does he/she get off writing such an editorial like that? Unless he/she actually attended Math 101, I don’t see how he/she can write an editorial criticizing the students in that class.

No one has the right to talk about this Math 101 class unless they have actually taken the course. I don’t think the walkout was childish either. The students were trying to prove a point. When an entire class gets up and leaves the room, then there is something wrong. It wasn’t just 10 people or even 110 people but it was the whole approximately 300 students.

The text book makes no sense and the examples in it are very limited. The professors who teach this class expect the students to learn most of the material from the book, but if we can’t understand it, then how are we supposed to learn? When the book doesn’t help us, we turn to the teacher to clear up unexplained problems.

But the teacher is almost as bad as the book. Professor Sons, who was my teacher, reviewed questions of the simplest kind which doesn’t help when it comes to the actual homework problems. She gives no clues on how to figure out any of the problems. It’s as if she doesn’t want us to learn at all.

According to the article Professor Sons said that these math problems might be encountered in life situations. The only way I would ever use any of these concepts would be if I was running a business or if I wanted to find out how the Cub’s batting averages were normally distributed within the last 10 years.

This course is not a math class; where is the algebra, the multiplication, the division? I’m sure there are a few people who understand this math class, but the majority does not. And for them the only way to pass this math class is out of luck. As I see it, unless you are Professor Sons, passing the class is far beyond possible.

Laura Gordon

Freshman

Pre-communications