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To: Jonty30

That’s why I don’t believe in using computers/calculators in school....learn math the old-fashioned way.


15 posted on 03/13/2013 2:14:44 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

I’ve personally maintained that the first time calculators should be formally introduced is college. A high school graduate should be able to do all the way through calculus without a calculator.


18 posted on 03/13/2013 2:17:37 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: dfwgator

When I got my degree (accounting/finance) we had to learn the math by hand before using calculators. Some of the problems could take 4 pages to solve and sometimes 1 problem was the only question on a test. I have helped some people in the recent past getting the same degree that only learn what buttons to push on the calculator. I’ve read that some of the young finance graduates were responsible for the financial crises, because they never learned the logic that accompanies the formulas.


25 posted on 03/13/2013 2:29:47 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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