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Article #242Graph-TI - thanks rwwt
From: Pat Ballew
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 1995 13:50
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 1995 13:50
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Thanks to rwwt for the clarification on "soggies". After reading the
explanation I reread the first document and it seemed "clear" indeed.
I feel so small I could sit on a dime and swing my legs.
I also agree with your position on exact answers, mostly. I like to
do proglems like soggies with matrices but I still yearn for that nice, clean,
explicit function that will tell me the answer. Somewhere I hope we find
a balance. Kids too often feel like the approximations are not "real" answers
and using calculators or computers is "cheating". On the other hand I have
concerns aout students being taught to use calculators to do problems for which
they have no conceptual understanding. I see this happening alot with curve
fitting on the TI-** and it does worry me.
Pat Ballew
Misawa, Japan
ballewp@emh.misawa.af.mil
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