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You may have gone to a poor high school and college. I saw plenty of calculator use in high school and college a long time ago.
by NetMageSCW 6mo ago
You may have gone to a poor high school and college. I saw plenty of calculator use in high school and college a long time ago.
- moffkalast 6mo agoSure calculators were allowed in some cases, the "scientific" kind, not the graphing kind. But yes I would agree. So much time spent making sure people don't learn to use the tools they'll always have on hand. Programming exams on paper and that kind of inane bullshit.
- darthwalsh 6mo agoIn my USA high School, they started requiring graphing calculators in the 9th grade math class. You would fail most quizzes/exams without the ability to run the calculations that scientific calculators couldn't do. I'm struggling to remember using my TI-84 in college though.
- Toutouxc 6mo agoPoor? In what sense? I graduated a few years ago (in Europe) and I think I could’ve gone through my entire education without owning one. Math, for me, went from nice numbers to ugly numbers that you had to do by hand (because that was the point), then to just letters and squiggles. At no point was there a need to work with hard numbers or to learn to work with a physical calculator (I haven’t seen one in the wild in years).