"Personally I found it not too difficult, but I saw a lot of students struggling in the class," Moskovitz says. "I think some people learned a lot; other students were just lost."
But other students say they found their QR classes unchallenging.
"I really enjoyed it [The Magic of Numbers], but I did find it pretty easy," Caleb J. Beyers '03 says. "A lot of people I know thought it was easy."
Reaching Goals
"I worry that we probably should take some of our students a little farther then we're taking them," Arnold Professor of Science William H. Bossert says. "In the 21st century, without quantitative skills, you'll be conned."
Core classes are notoriously easier than their departmental counterparts.
For instance, Bossert says that the computer programming course he will be teaching this semester, QR 20, is basically "a watered down CS50."
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