Will this be a "certified dumb enough for school use during tests" device?
I don't think this is actually a leak. The units were on display at the TI booth at a math teacher conference this past week.
What I've heard is that they will have a "Press-To-Test" feature, and so will be able to be hobbled for ACT and state tests that require dumb calculators.
..., in California, a teacher gets tenure after two years. How do you fire a bad teacher after that?....
Your question does not follow from your premise. After a teacher has tenure, the termination process is fairly simple, as with almost any employee working under a contract. The employer (school district in this case) simply has to document the ways in which the employee is failing to live up to the contract, and they terminate him. Or her.
Tenure is not, and has never been, a guarantee of lifetime employment. Tenure is simply a promise of due process. Nothing more.
at least firefox sell check gets learn right. Does IE even have a sell check?
are you using your own posts (e.g. "learing," "leraing," "respec," "sell") as ironic confirmation of FireFox's abilities?
or perhaps you are using IE and blaming it for your failings?
please clarify, as your horrendous orthography renders your argument turgid.
I suppose people should exercise caution relaying information from newspapers in a language they don't understand.
The opening sentence says the events they are reporting on happened on the 14th at about 11 AM. In Eastern Daylight Time that's March 13, 10 PM. This is the same, second, blast which is already being reported in English language US papers.
It appears they're confusing "odds" and "probability." It's uncommon to express "odds" as a percentage, but if it is in fact what they intended, 50:50 is very little different from 96:100, but 96:100 would be worse odds than 50:50, not better.
This attitude is common with the older generation who aren't used to the net.
What's the dividing line for "older generation?"
For example, I believe Donald Knuth is on the cusp of 71 years.
In my own math class, and with students in my school, I've been a vocal proponent of open source. I'm not as old as Knuth, but I suspect I'm above the median age for/.
One of my favorite xkcd cartoons would make a great game at a math nerd party.
Get a clock with digital display. Set it to 24 hour format. (Better still, one with seconds display!)
See who can find the prime factorization of the time display quickest.
I am an eighth grade English teacher. As much as I love my subject and believe in the value of skillful writing, I also believe that there is a terrible lack of interest in the sciences and maths among students in general. In some sense, I believe English to be a support subject for the others classes at this grade level. At my school, the average science classroom has time for labs and note taking, but reading and writing on the subject (beside textbooks) is usually limited. Math is in a similar situation: they have time to learn a concept and practice, but not to linger on possibilities. Therefore, I have two questions for the readers of Slashdot: which books / shows / movies caused a curiosity towards these subjects when you were young, and what suggestions do you have for incorporating these subjects into writing?
First, my own experience was that books and movies did not cause my interest in maths and sciences, but rather the other way around -- my interest in maths and sciences caused me to choose certain books and movies.
Second, there are a number of ways I incorporate literacy skills in my high school math classroom. One of the easiest is to assign a "math journal." This is a short writing assignment at the end of the class several times a week. I put a prompt on the board (in your own words what are the key concepts learned today, or how would you explain today's lesson to a friend who was absent, or a similar open-ended prompt). I've also given long-term writing assignments, such as biographies of noted mathematicians, and one year I had geometry students read and discuss Flatland.
A key part of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) standards is to encourage multiple representations and mathematical communications. I'm sure you're under pressure to cover a certain amount of curriculum, but don't let that squeeze you into giving communications short shrift.
(for reference, I teach in NYC to a population performing significantly below grade level in both quantitative skills and language arts)
Sometimes students benefit from visually seeing the connections between different mathematical representations of the concepts they're learning. A good interactive geometry program can help there. Lots of teachers use Geometer's Sketchpad (by KeyPress) or Cabri (by CabriLog).
If the kids are also using graphing calculators, like the TI-84+, see if you can get your school to spring for a TI-Navigator system to let you get information back and forth on the fly.
I'm a high school math teacher, and almost everyone uses the TI-83+ family (which includes the 84+), but I agree on its shortcomings. On the plus side, there's a huge library of apps you can run on it.
For my own use, I got the TI-89. It gives me simplified radicals, instead of useless decimal approximations like the 83/84. I get a kick out of knowing it's powered by a Motorola 68000, so I pretend I'm using a classic Macintosh.
If you're not going to have to interact or share things with anyone else in class, I don't think TI is the most cost effective option.
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Will this be a "certified dumb enough for school use during tests" device?
I don't think this is actually a leak. The units were on display at the TI booth at a math teacher conference this past week. What I've heard is that they will have a "Press-To-Test" feature, and so will be able to be hobbled for ACT and state tests that require dumb calculators.
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..., in California, a teacher gets tenure after two years. How do you fire a bad teacher after that? ....
Your question does not follow from your premise. After a teacher has tenure, the termination process is fairly simple, as with almost any employee working under a contract. The employer (school district in this case) simply has to document the ways in which the employee is failing to live up to the contract, and they terminate him. Or her. Tenure is not, and has never been, a guarantee of lifetime employment. Tenure is simply a promise of due process. Nothing more.
at least firefox sell check gets learn right. Does IE even have a sell check?
are you using your own posts (e.g. "learing," "leraing," "respec," "sell") as ironic confirmation of FireFox's abilities? or perhaps you are using IE and blaming it for your failings? please clarify, as your horrendous orthography renders your argument turgid.
curious: did you lear how to spell by yourself? or pehaps your writing is from an online leraing system?
Remove and reinsert the battery. After that I'm sure you'll get a real boot.
the Nspire CX and CX CAS have hard-installed Li ion batteries -- not easily removed
I suppose people should exercise caution relaying information from newspapers in a language they don't understand. The opening sentence says the events they are reporting on happened on the 14th at about 11 AM. In Eastern Daylight Time that's March 13, 10 PM. This is the same, second, blast which is already being reported in English language US papers.
Strictly speaking it's a rectangular measure.
ha ha. cute.
jou is a square measure, used for area, and usually only in real estate applications. linear measure is typically metric.
no, they use metric in Japan. =)
It appears they're confusing "odds" and "probability." It's uncommon to express "odds" as a percentage, but if it is in fact what they intended, 50:50 is very little different from 96:100, but 96:100 would be worse odds than 50:50, not better.
... Qwerty is a romance language specific layout geared towards english. ...
... Other romance languages have different letter combinations that are not ideal for qwerty.
You seem to be confused. English is not a Romance language. It's more closely related to German.
This attitude is common with the older generation who aren't used to the net. What's the dividing line for "older generation?" For example, I believe Donald Knuth is on the cusp of 71 years. In my own math class, and with students in my school, I've been a vocal proponent of open source. I'm not as old as Knuth, but I suspect I'm above the median age for /.
One of my favorite xkcd cartoons would make a great game at a math nerd party. Get a clock with digital display. Set it to 24 hour format. (Better still, one with seconds display!) See who can find the prime factorization of the time display quickest.
I am an eighth grade English teacher. As much as I love my subject and believe in the value of skillful writing, I also believe that there is a terrible lack of interest in the sciences and maths among students in general. In some sense, I believe English to be a support subject for the others classes at this grade level. At my school, the average science classroom has time for labs and note taking, but reading and writing on the subject (beside textbooks) is usually limited. Math is in a similar situation: they have time to learn a concept and practice, but not to linger on possibilities. Therefore, I have two questions for the readers of Slashdot: which books / shows / movies caused a curiosity towards these subjects when you were young, and what suggestions do you have for incorporating these subjects into writing? First, my own experience was that books and movies did not cause my interest in maths and sciences, but rather the other way around -- my interest in maths and sciences caused me to choose certain books and movies. Second, there are a number of ways I incorporate literacy skills in my high school math classroom. One of the easiest is to assign a "math journal." This is a short writing assignment at the end of the class several times a week. I put a prompt on the board (in your own words what are the key concepts learned today, or how would you explain today's lesson to a friend who was absent, or a similar open-ended prompt). I've also given long-term writing assignments, such as biographies of noted mathematicians, and one year I had geometry students read and discuss Flatland. A key part of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) standards is to encourage multiple representations and mathematical communications. I'm sure you're under pressure to cover a certain amount of curriculum, but don't let that squeeze you into giving communications short shrift. (for reference, I teach in NYC to a population performing significantly below grade level in both quantitative skills and language arts)
Sometimes students benefit from visually seeing the connections between different mathematical representations of the concepts they're learning. A good interactive geometry program can help there. Lots of teachers use Geometer's Sketchpad (by KeyPress) or Cabri (by CabriLog). If the kids are also using graphing calculators, like the TI-84+, see if you can get your school to spring for a TI-Navigator system to let you get information back and forth on the fly.
I'm a high school math teacher, and almost everyone uses the TI-83+ family (which includes the 84+), but I agree on its shortcomings. On the plus side, there's a huge library of apps you can run on it. For my own use, I got the TI-89. It gives me simplified radicals, instead of useless decimal approximations like the 83/84. I get a kick out of knowing it's powered by a Motorola 68000, so I pretend I'm using a classic Macintosh. If you're not going to have to interact or share things with anyone else in class, I don't think TI is the most cost effective option.