Re: banning calculators

[Bernard Cleyet <anngeorg@PACBELL.NET>]

Is that the calculator to which Feynman refers?  (The scientist at LANL who
became addicted to calculating trig. fcns.)

bc


Rick Tarara wrote:

> In my mind, the key to the successful use of calculators in early education
> is that the bulk of the math experience needs to be based on the dreaded

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> Rick (Whose first research work involved solving the relativistic Q-value
> equation for nuclear reactions with a Monroe adding machine which used
> special printed tables for determining square roots and who later was amazed
> at the capabilities of a $5000 Olivetti calculator that _could_ do square
> roots and could store 120 step programs (so that we could do other functions
> via expansions!)
>
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