<< At 10:43 PM 5/1/97 -0400, Karen from Orange Coast College wrote:
>I know a LOT of teachers that think that having a graphing calculator
>anywhere NEAR their classroom is out right cheating.
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I am probably beating a dead horse, but this attitude is what I was refering
to yesterday. Many teachers see a calculator as a machine that does
mathematics. >>
Ed-
No one on this board has claimed this attitude. I teach courses with a TI-85
and I teach courses without. I do whatever I'm assigned at this point (being
adjunct).
And I've also seen students go into near hysterics when they are told that
they cannot use their TI-85 in their next course.
One place that I'm teaching at starts them using the TI-85 in *arithmetic*!
Now, the one thing that I need to add here..... NONE of the courses that I
mentioned are reform courses. I don't see how you can even begin to do a
reform class without a TI-85 (or 92). These two ideologies go hand and hand.
So having them use a TI-85 for arithmetic (in a non-reform setting with only
doing the word problems that appear in a typical text) is like killing a fly
with plastic explosives.
Karen
Orange Coast College
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