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I don't think I've ever taken a maths class where calculators were allowed (or made sense), from elementary through university. The problems were usually desig

I don't think I've ever taken a maths class where calculators were allowed (or made sense), from elementary through university. The problems were usually designed to emphasize the thing you were trying to learn at the time, so once you were beyond simple arithmetic then "I think I'll need a calculator for this step" was a clue that you were on the wrong track anyway.

sfmike 4y ago
TI calculators were required from middle school forward albeit the ones with stored memory were not allowed because of answer storage. just a straight 83+ 84, you had to write and show the work but the arithmetic was definitely allowed via calculator.
manchmalscott 4y ago
Every math class I've taken past elementary school and through college has required a graphing calculator. They don't care if you can do arithmetic in your head, they want to know that you know how to solve a problem, which steps to take. Though I think in this way, you can't even really compare copilot to a calculator, as it seems that copilot tries to know how to solve the problem.
- nerdjon 4y ago
  I thought in middle school I was still using a normal calculator and was not allowed to use a graphing calculator. But now I don’t remember. The other important part of that at least in my school, we had to use a graphing calculator but were also not allowed to use certain models that made things too easy. That’s exactly my concern here. Once you’re taking algebra it should be a assumption that given the time you can do basic multiplication, division, square roots and others given enough time but there isn’t any point when the more important part is solving other issues. That’s the simple stuff so why not make that easier as long as you learned how to get where you need to get. But can you imagine having a tool like this when taking data structures?!?
madrox 4y ago
It sounds like we were in very different classes. I was using a graphing calculator mid-way through high school for calculus and statistics. Before that, I was using a basic one for trig and geometry.
dvngnt_ 4y ago
that's cap. a ti-84 is a monopoly

sfmike 4y ago

TI calculators were required from middle school forward albeit the ones with stored memory were not allowed because of answer storage. just a straight 83+ 84, you had to write and show the work but the arithmetic was definitely allowed via calculator.

manchmalscott 4y ago

Every math class I've taken past elementary school and through college has required a graphing calculator. They don't care if you can do arithmetic in your head, they want to know that you know how to solve a problem, which steps to take. Though I think in this way, you can't even really compare copilot to a calculator, as it seems that copilot tries to know how to solve the problem.

nerdjon 4y ago
I thought in middle school I was still using a normal calculator and was not allowed to use a graphing calculator. But now I don’t remember. The other important part of that at least in my school, we had to use a graphing calculator but were also not allowed to use certain models that made things too easy. That’s exactly my concern here. Once you’re taking algebra it should be a assumption that given the time you can do basic multiplication, division, square roots and others given enough time but there isn’t any point when the more important part is solving other issues. That’s the simple stuff so why not make that easier as long as you learned how to get where you need to get. But can you imagine having a tool like this when taking data structures?!?

madrox 4y ago

It sounds like we were in very different classes. I was using a graphing calculator mid-way through high school for calculus and statistics. Before that, I was using a basic one for trig and geometry.

dvngnt_ 4y ago

that's cap. a ti-84 is a monopoly