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To: Andy from Beaverton
Calculators in the classroom was the beginning of the end.

Not for doing Trig in the 10th grade. I would have been toast without it.

36 posted on 07/26/2006 10:13:13 AM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: buccaneer81

I support it at that level of math, for the time-saving issue.

Without calculators Calculus 1 would have been a nightmare. Question One on the exam would have taken an hour. The arithmetic is the time-consuming part.

But below high school Trig or Advanced Algebra level, no, let them do it the old way.


42 posted on 07/26/2006 10:20:59 AM PDT by RockinRight (She rocks my world, and I rock her world.)
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