Calculator Flaw Forces Recall in Virginia

Jivecat writes "CNN is reporting that TI is recalling 11,000 calculators issued to students in Virginia because of a flaw that would give them an unfair advantage on standardized tests. A 12-year-old discovered that by pressing two keys at once, the calculators will convert decimals to fractions. The tests require the students to know how to do this with pencil-and-paper." So the calculator is being recalled because it's not crippled enough. Maybe it's a good time to question the wisdom of issuing expensive electronics to students in the first place, though I'm sure the calculator companies would rather you didn't.

Comments

Re:Time to reconsiderer teaching...?

[RM6f9]

Are you a parent?
Y'see, I can't decide if you're seriously suggesting continuing the trend of learned helplessness by way of dependence on electronic tools that may or may not continue to function perfectly forever, or suggesting that *others* continue their slide into mental cripple-ville while you and yours (and me and mine) gain potential advantage...
Either way, nice potential troll.

Re:Next To Go: '+' Sign

[falcon5768]

Anyone who thinks having a masters of ANYTHING means your smarter than a person who doesnt is smoking on the DR pole.

Having a masters only ment you could put up with the unrealistic BS that is college a bit longer than the rest of us who realize college continues to not teach the real world but only the lab safe enviroment that is a college campus.