Re:Will it rot my students' brains if they use Mathematica? ...
by II2II on Friday November 05, 2021 @08:57AM
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Sorry, I meant children (rather than anyone younger than you are, which seems to be how some people use the word kids).
While I agree with being able to check the results with many modern calculators, my argument is that it is useful to know when the results have to be checked. For example: if you know that all of the points are less than 5 and you are adding 20 of them together, a result greater than 100 means you have to go back and check what was entered.
While I agree with being able to check the results with many modern calculators, my argument is that it is useful to know when the results have to be checked. For example: if you know that all of the points are less than 5 and you are adding 20 of them together, a result greater than 100 means you have to go back and check what was entered.