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Article: Calculators have changed how kids learn math. (Originated from Orange County Register)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- September 7, 1993
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America's math teachers were calculator holdouts.
Now most wouldn't ask a student to figure a square root without one.
These days, calculators are fixtures in grade schools, high schools and colleges. In fact, 99 percent of high school students polled by College Board last year said they knew how to use a calculator.
But it wasn't so long ago that teachers thought that kids who used calculators weren't learning, says William Wickes, a calculator research and development manager with Hewlett-Packard.
``They believed people's skills were being eroded by depending too much on machines, that (kids) weren't learning how to think,'' he says.
Teachers also ...