On 1/11/20 18:44, Razer wrote:
Ps. The first time I ever saw a calculator allowed in a classroom, no less a test area, I knew American children would be a global math fail. You need to learn the mechanics, just like you need to learn Text is spelled TEXT not TXT, first. Then you can fake it. Which is what I always told the class A drivers I trained. Learn to do it MY way first, THEN you can do it your way.
It is important to know how to do basic math using only pencil and paper, but beyond addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and square roots (which can be done on paper, just nobody teaches them anymore), a lot of the calculations start to get really tedious when you have to work out each step by hand (trigonometry functions, logarithms, etc) and the chances for errors go way up. Yes, if you need a calculator to do 2+2, you deserve to fail math. But that's not why calculators are allowed on modern math tests. -- Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn@rushpost.com> http://www.rantroulette.com http://www.skqrecordquest.com