Re: your mail

Geoffrey Akst (akst@CHELSEA.IOS.COM)
Tue, 16 Apr 1996 23:30:09 -0500

I'm constantly encountering faculty who believe that graphing calculators
should not be allowed in the classroom or on tests, at least below a
certain course level. Their view is often the traditional one -- that
proof is the heart of mathematics and calculators don't give students
practice in proving. I think the pro-calculator forces have swept the
field in Statistics, but not completely in calculus, developmental math,
etc.

Geoffrey Akst, Manhattan CC

At 4:13 PM 4/16/96, Ann Flanigan wrote:
>If Hawaii is representative, yes, there are a lot of college courses
>where the graphing calculator is not allowed. I feel bad for my students
>when they come back and report to me that they are not allowed to use
>their graphers that they finally mastered at the end of my class. I
>think it will take quite a whle to convince college instructors that they
>should be standard equipment.
> Aloha, Anne Flanigan Kapiolani Community College
>
>On Tue, 16 Apr 1996, Roberta S. Lacefield wrote:
>
>> Vern's comments on the content of our courses and a recent NADE-Ga
>> conference I attended have prompted this question: Are there a lot of
>> colleges which still do NOT allow the use of graphing calculators in their
>> math courses?
>>
>> Roberta
>>
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>> Roberta S. Lacefield
>> RSL094@fox.way.peachnet.edu
>> Waycross College
>> 2001 S. Georgia Pkwy
>> Waycross, GA 31503
>> (912) 285-6027
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