I can tell you for sure that in my years recently at high school, those calculators were probably the greatest thing hindering our math education.What would happen is instead of just using the calculators for plugging in the equations themselves, the kids who were good with math and apparently wanted some cool points would write out programs to solve the equation by plugging in values within the questions, which were then downloaded to everyone, it seemed. Of course the teachers knew, but they did nothing.I started to realize by my junior year that those calulators weren't helping me much, so I started to do things by hand. I'm glad I did too -- It helped me out a lot in the long run.And one more thing to mention about those calculators -- a lot of kids just have them to play primitive games during class, to look like they are working. Taking away the calculators would fix that problem, too...
My mistake. Still, people have seen the pics long before this.
PC Gamer had exclusive pics months before this.
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I can tell you for sure that in my years recently at high school, those calculators were probably the greatest thing hindering our math education.What would happen is instead of just using the calculators for plugging in the equations themselves, the kids who were good with math and apparently wanted some cool points would write out programs to solve the equation by plugging in values within the questions, which were then downloaded to everyone, it seemed. Of course the teachers knew, but they did nothing.I started to realize by my junior year that those calulators weren't helping me much, so I started to do things by hand. I'm glad I did too -- It helped me out a lot in the long run.And one more thing to mention about those calculators -- a lot of kids just have them to play primitive games during class, to look like they are working. Taking away the calculators would fix that problem, too...
How awesome, I was about to post the same thing.
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