Which is more fundamental: that there _is_ such a thing as "Algebra 1" and
"Algebra 2", or that a society should educate its citizens according to current
principles, practice, and technology? Once paper and pencil became cheap enough
we started educating our children to the limits of our understanding with this
new tool, starting at as early an age as feasible, and the curriculum
structures followed. I would expect that symbolic calculators will become
staples of tomorrow's classrooms starting even in elementary school, and
students will be routinely performing calculations with them that would boggle
anyone today except for us (lucky?) mathematicians.
RWW Taylor
National Technical Institute for the Deaf
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester NY 14623
>>>> The plural of mongoose begins with p. <<<<
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