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>Date: Mon, 01 Dec 1997 09:20:14 -0500
>From: Cait Clements <cclement@nassmc.org>
>Subject: Virginia's Dept. of Ed. Calculator Purchase
>To: NASSMC@nassmc.org
>Reply-to: owner-NASSMC@nassmc.org
>
>The Washington Post (11/26/97) reports that the Virginia Department of
>Education recently spent nearly $20 million to procure 200,000 graphing
>calculators for "every ninth and tenth grader in the state as well as
>abount 40% of the eight graders." The new Virginia curriculum standards
>"call for students to use graphing calculators in first-year algebra and
>all higher level math classes, and high school students taking a new
>statewide algebra exam this spring will get questions requiring the use on
>the machines."
>
>Tom Nuttall, K-12 mathematics coordinator for the Fairfax County schools
>contends that "it really is an equity issue for us _ the only way you can
>legitimately test kids on use of the equipment is if they have access to
>it." Local districts will be responsible for the distribution of the
>calculators in December 1997. Ninety-seven percent of the calculators to
>be distributed are the TI-83 manufactured by Texas Instruments while the
>remaining three percent are the EA-100 manufactured by the Casio Computer
>Co. Ltd. Additionally, 6000 Texas Instrument's "probe kits" have been
>purchased.
>
>
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>Ian Peat
>Executive Director
>Ohio Mathematics and Science Coalition
>Miami University tel: 513-727-3237
>4200 E. University Blvd. fax: 513-727-3367
>Middletown, OH 45042 email: peati@muohio.edu
>
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Nancy J. Sattler
Curriculum Chair
Terra Community College
2830 Napoleon Road
Fremont, OH 43420
phone:419-334-8400, ext. 179
fax: 419-334-9414
email: nsattler@terra.cc.oh.us
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