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From: ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith)
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Subject: Re: The use of calculators in teaching calculus
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Students don't need a $300 dollar HP to do these things.  There
are calculators from Sharp and Casio that do a lot of these
functions for a lot less.  As long as you make sure that you
don't require all the features of the $300 HP, so that students
with less money can still afford something that does what they
need, you can probably get away with requiring a calculator.

Heck, it won't cost anymore than if you required an extra
textbook, considering the price of books nowadays :-(.

					Tim Smith