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Calculators vs. PDAs in the Classroom

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the crutches-for-the-weak-minded dept.

TheMatt writes "CNN.com is reporting about a new conflict perhaps emerging in classrooms: calculators v. PDAs. The article talks about how TI seems to be making their latest calculator more PDA-like, while PDAs are gaining TI-like functionality. A comment on current math education is this quote from the article: "When you have circles and ellipses, there is no way you'd be able to do this without a calculator," Jarvis said. "It helps us visualize what we're doing." Were the compass and geometry uninvented?"

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  1. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FRIST PSOT!!!

  2. Slashdot coverup of X-Windows DoS? by damieng · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I tried posting as a news story but despite covering practically every serious Microsoft security hole there is Slashdot doesn't feel fit to mention a serious X-Windows/Mozilla DoS that only requires a web page to have a very large font set.



    The result can be a terminated XFree86 or a frozen box with you reaching for the reset button. Full details at The Register.

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    [)amien
    1. Re:Slashdot coverup of X-Windows DoS? by sheepab · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      This is interesting because recently I upgraded to RH 7.3, and in X I sometimes get a frozen box and find myself reaching for the reset button....hmmm. Does anyone using RH 7.3 have this problem, or a fix to it?

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      In college, really poor, need a flatscreen.
  3. Was the compass and geometry uninvented? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Wow. The quality of people submitting articles has really improved. Surely a submitter does not mind if you correct a submission's spelling/grammar?

    Oh wait, this is slashdot: posts that horrify educators. Stuff that's misspeeled.