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To: redfreedom

Kind of like abandoning simple math as the calculator does it easier.


4 posted on 07/18/2019 4:33:44 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: tired&retired
"Kind of like abandoning simple math as the calculator does it easier."

Yeah... That's what I was thinking... Better not give them a pencil..! They would think it was some kind of new stabbing weapon... :)

23 posted on 07/18/2019 5:09:29 AM PDT by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: tired&retired

In a calc course, we had to show how we arrived at the functions we plotted on graph paper. I had a TI-86 graphics calculator that I used to check my answers with. Technology is great to have around, but understanding the fundamentals is more useful.


25 posted on 07/18/2019 5:14:57 AM PDT by Silentgypsy (Call an addiction hotline and say you're hooked on phonics.)
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To: tired&retired

Reminds me of the scene in Apollo 13 where Lovell in a critical time shortage is calculating their position in his head and on a worksheet and calls the numbers down to mission control and within a couple of minutes with slide rules and paper they calculate the correct numbers for the LEM computer.


87 posted on 07/18/2019 8:56:52 AM PDT by sarge83
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