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Sunbourn
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Graphing calculators: Archaic, yet still required
http://www.mic.com/articles/125829/your-...2&ts_pid=2
Today, you can get all of the functionality of graphing calculators in mobile apps, saving you from dumping an enormous amount of money in to a clunky calculator. Unfortunately, many students remain obligated to buy them. That's because the TI-83 has become so intertwined with the United States' mathematics curriculum that it seen in textbooks, and other options are shut out from being used on standardized testing. The material can be taught without it, but as a teacher in the article explains, they must guiltily convince parents to buy them anyway because of the standards in place. It's essentially money down the toilet.
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RE: Graphing calculators: Archaic, yet still required
I like graphing calculators :(
Hello, traveler.
This is an ancient account I have not used in a long time. My views have changed much in the intervening months and years.
Nonetheless, I refuse to clean it up. Pretending that I've held my current views since the beginning of time is what we in the industry call a lie. Asking people to do so contributes to moralistic self-loathing. "See, those people have nothing damning! I do! I'm truly vile!"
Because you can never be a good person with a single blemish on the moral record, I thought that simply entertaining some thoughts made me irredeemable. Though I don't care for his writing style, William Faulkner presents a good counterexample. He went from being a typical Southern racist to supporting the civil rights movement. These days we'd yell at him for that, probably.
People are allowed to change their views.
Nevertheless, this period of my life has informed some of how I am today. In good ways and bad ways. To purge it would be to do a disservice to history. Perhaps it will not make anyone sympathetic, but it may help someone understand.
If, after reading all this, you still decide to use the post above as evidence that I am evil today, ask yourself if you have never disagreed with the moral code you now follow. In all likelihood you did, at some point. If some questions are verboten, and the answer is "how dare you ask that," don't expect your ideological opponents to ever change their minds.
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Graphing calculators: Archaic, yet still required
What TI builds with your money:
![[Image: 320px-Army-fgm148.jpg]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Army-fgm148.jpg/320px-Army-fgm148.jpg)
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Of course they no longer do after '97 when they sold their defense branch to Raytheon for ~$2.5 Billion.
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RE: Graphing calculators: Archaic, yet still required
(10-06-2015 12:30 PM)|55555| Wrote: http://www.mic.com/articles/125829/your-...2&ts_pid=2
Today, you can get all of the functionality of graphing calculators in mobile apps, saving you from dumping an enormous amount of money in to a clunky calculator. Unfortunately, many students remain obligated to buy them. That's because the TI-83 has become so intertwined with the United States' mathematics curriculum that it seen in textbooks, and other options are shut out from being used on standardized testing. The material can be taught without it, but as a teacher in the article explains, they must guiltily convince parents to buy them anyway because of the standards in place. It's essentially money down the toilet.
Also the TI-84. Not to bring down your point or anything, but it's not just the TI-83.
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RE: Graphing calculators: Archaic, yet still required
The TI-84 is all u need. The Inspire is just fancy shamncy.
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RE: Graphing calculators: Archaic, yet still required
Get a Casio
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RE: Graphing calculators: Archaic, yet still required
>mobile apps
Hey kids get out your fancy phone that you can use to access any piece of info in the world and fire up your graphing calculator app! what could possibly go wrong?? nobody would eve cheat I assure you
![[Image: nAOqYk7.png]](http://i.imgur.com/nAOqYk7.png)
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(10-10-2015 02:32 PM)thewake Wrote: >mobile apps
Hey kids get out your fancy phone that you can use to access any piece of info in the world and fire up your graphing calculator app! what could possibly go wrong?? nobody would eve cheat I assure you
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RE: Graphing calculators: Archaic, yet still required
People who give a fuck about the class will actually use the app. Those who don't give a fuck are probably bored out of their minds. It's a win-win.
Hello, traveler.
This is an ancient account I have not used in a long time. My views have changed much in the intervening months and years.
Nonetheless, I refuse to clean it up. Pretending that I've held my current views since the beginning of time is what we in the industry call a lie. Asking people to do so contributes to moralistic self-loathing. "See, those people have nothing damning! I do! I'm truly vile!"
Because you can never be a good person with a single blemish on the moral record, I thought that simply entertaining some thoughts made me irredeemable. Though I don't care for his writing style, William Faulkner presents a good counterexample. He went from being a typical Southern racist to supporting the civil rights movement. These days we'd yell at him for that, probably.
People are allowed to change their views.
Nevertheless, this period of my life has informed some of how I am today. In good ways and bad ways. To purge it would be to do a disservice to history. Perhaps it will not make anyone sympathetic, but it may help someone understand.
If, after reading all this, you still decide to use the post above as evidence that I am evil today, ask yourself if you have never disagreed with the moral code you now follow. In all likelihood you did, at some point. If some questions are verboten, and the answer is "how dare you ask that," don't expect your ideological opponents to ever change their minds.
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RE: Graphing calculators: Archaic, yet still required
Apps? I ended HS when apps became a thing.
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