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Old 16-August-2008, 03:23 AM
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Originally Posted by Kaptain K View Post
We are very close to raising a generation that cannot do math without a calculator!
Not in the classes I took. In high school, we used the calculators to help us with more complex (basically impossible by hand within a class period) problems, and did other sections with no calculator at all to master the basics. In college so far, it has been similar - in calc 3, all tests were no calculator, and we also had matlab and mathematica based projects that involved far more complex problems.
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