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From: acmfiu@serss0.fiu.edu (ACMFIU)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Stupid HP48 tricks
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Date: 21 May 91 03:36:28 GMT
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In article <28319e55:3105.1comp.sys.handhelds;1@hpcvbbs.UUCP> akcs.kevin@hpcvbbs.UUCP (Kevin Jessup) writes:
]I wish college professors would come out of the dark ages and realize
]that a calculator is not a crutch but a tool.
] 
]To quote a recent editorial in EDN magazine..."If your having trouble
]hammering that nail into the board with a rock, isn't it time to advance
]to the hammer?"

well, i'd tend to disagree. while many of you would argue that the
calculator should be used for mundane tasks like the lower-level math
stuff, i'm quite glad i'm forced not to use a calculator at all in my
math classes. then again, my highest math class is calc III with
statistics coming in the fall. however, i'm of the belief that if the
professors got by with their wimpy calculators way back when, then i
can get by just fine under similar circumstances. after all, is academia
now asking their students to do *more* rough calculations.

or maybe the teacher should not ask for exact solutions but solutions
in symbolic form. i'm also happy to be taking logic courses where we
rarely encounter the lame stuff but you'd be surprised how much you thought
you knew about low-level math until you get to proving some of it.

albert