As one who uses GC's extensivley in the classroom, I have to continually
remind myself that the primary purpose of the calculator is to help the
students LEARN math, not DO math.
Are we sliding down the slippery slope of over-emphasizing right answers?
(and by "we" I mean the whole educational bureaucracy, not the readers on
this list)
Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach him how to fish and he eats
for life. Have we forgotten what our job is?
Is anyone other than me noticing an increase in the number of "welfare
cases" walking into my classroom with a calculator in one hand and a desire
for nothing more than knowing what buttons to punch to get the right answer?
Bret Taylor "It matters not the subject taught,
Lake-Sumter Community College nor all the books on all the shelves.
Leesburg, FL What matters more, yes most of all,
John 3:3^3+3 is what the teachers are themselves."
John Wooden
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