Re: Why are TI Calcs so inferior?

Subject: Re: Why are TI Calcs so inferior?
From: Daniel Kao <kao@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 10:58:02 -0800
In-Reply-To: <19961116180300.NAA17122@ladder01.news.aol.com>

On 16 Nov 1996 jwardell@aol.com wrote:


> <<And finally, if you are in high school, you don't really need anything
> in the TI9x or TI8x range.  I believe that most high schools do a very
> poor job of training people rigerously today.  Qualitative approaches
> are good, but it all should be done with good old paper and pencil, and
> when you've truly mastered it, you can go on.>>>
>
>   I don't know what high school you come from. I needed a 8x sophomore and
> junior year, and the 92 was a great help senior year. Perhaps you didn't
> get Pre Calc till college? In fact, we were required to buy calculators
> junior and senior year.
>
>                           -Josh Wardell
> http://users.aol.com/jwardell/JWardell.html


I think what the original poster meant that we rely too much on the TI8X's
and the TI9X's to do our math for us. Almost all of Calculus doesn't even
require calculators to do.


Warmest Regards,
  --Dan


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