It’s a bit puzzling to me that we are worrying about replacing a very expensive thing that (some) students own with a very cheap thing. Like, yes of course, give everyone a damn calculator, but really, now you guys feel the sudden urge to advocate for that? If someone can’t afford a 9$ calculator, they also didn’t afford it last week, when phones were not banned. Where was all the concern about students who can’t afford calculators last week? It’s silly.
Why now? Because that is what is being discussed in this thread.
I believe that education should be a 100% free, down to the material used in class. But we are talking about phones replacing calculators, not how we think the education should be.
Graphing calculators are 100% necessary, we used them regularly for sine wave and logarithmic functions to pinpoint specific plot values on a graph. A $9 calculator doesn’t cover that.
EDIT: Getting downvoted for this is crazy work, they literally would list the Ti-85 in our school supplies list.
Quebec, no, but in Alberta. I’d be surprised if the curriculum there didn’t touch on topics requiring graphing calculators though since it was just about all we did in 11th and 12th grade math class. It was quite literally a necessity to have the Ti ones specifically too since everything was taught using inputs for the things.
It’s a bit puzzling to me that we are worrying about replacing a very expensive thing that (some) students own with a very cheap thing. Like, yes of course, give everyone a damn calculator, but really, now you guys feel the sudden urge to advocate for that? If someone can’t afford a 9$ calculator, they also didn’t afford it last week, when phones were not banned. Where was all the concern about students who can’t afford calculators last week? It’s silly.
Why now? Because that is what is being discussed in this thread.
I believe that education should be a 100% free, down to the material used in class. But we are talking about phones replacing calculators, not how we think the education should be.
So yeah, give everyone a damn calculator.
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Graphing calculators are 100% necessary, we used them regularly for sine wave and logarithmic functions to pinpoint specific plot values on a graph. A $9 calculator doesn’t cover that.
EDIT: Getting downvoted for this is crazy work, they literally would list the Ti-85 in our school supplies list.
Question, were you a student in Quebec?
(Not downvoting you.)
Quebec, no, but in Alberta. I’d be surprised if the curriculum there didn’t touch on topics requiring graphing calculators though since it was just about all we did in 11th and 12th grade math class. It was quite literally a necessity to have the Ti ones specifically too since everything was taught using inputs for the things.