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Sunday, October 23, 2011

Beware The Calculator | The Jose Vilson

Beware The Calculator | The Jose Vilson:

Beware The Calculator

As a math coach, people always want to catch my ear about the use of a calculator. I ought to put my voice into the argument since … well, that’s what I do here. The two sides to the argument go as follows:

1) Students should use calculators because the machine can already do it for them.
2) Students shouldn’t use the calculators because computers (big and small) make