Re: Why are TI Calcs so inferior?
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In article <19961116180300.NAA17122@ladder01.news.aol.com>,
jwardell@aol.com wrote:
>And finally, if you are in high school, you don't really need anything
>in the TI9x or TI8x range. I believe that most high schools do a very
>poor job of training people rigerously today. Qualitative approaches
>are good, but it all should be done with good old paper and pencil, and
>when you've truly mastered it, you can go on.
If the course is taught correctly, that shouldn't be a problem.
In Calculus I & II, more interesting things can be done on the
calculator. It is a hinderance once students understand how to manually
find maxima and minima, and things like that. When I learned calc, I was
drilled and drilled on finding end behavior, asymptotes, etc. I do it in
my sleep.
In the future, what are we going to use, a pen and paper to integrate and
derive? I don't thinks so. Sure, it is IMPERATIVE that people know what
is going on when you integrate a function, but it is most important that
student learn how do use the equipment. Some of the most interesting
classes I've have been in have been where we used the calculator a tool
for finding the answer, rather then to get the answer.
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