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Article: CALCULATORS + CLASS (EQ) A LESSON IN PROBLEM-SOLVING.(LOCAL)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- June 27, 1998
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Byline: MATTHEW BOWERS, STAFF WRITER
NORFOLK -- Now this was a fine sight. Eleven educators from around Virginia, here for a three-day workshop on better ways to teach math and science, all holding calculators . . . upside down.
The state says their students must know how to use calculators - it's in the new Standards of Learning that dictate what everyone should be taught. National education groups recommend using calculators in class, to free up students to explore math ideas and to solve more realistic problems easier than with pencil-and-paper computations.
But they meant right-side-up, didn't they?
Hey, I do this all the time with ...