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WP34s Birthday Gift @ ISU
02-26-2015, 04:29 PM
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(02-26-2015 02:08 PM)SlideRule Wrote:  
(02-26-2015 01:03 AM)troll80 Wrote:  ... I'm surprised to hear kids still even need calculators these days, with phone/tablet apps, Excel, Matlab, and Wolfram Alpha.

w/o impugning ANYONE, calculators don't access the internet etc..
I teach Technical Mathematics & the temptation for Academic Dishonesty is greatly reduced by restricting computational devices to NON-programmable calculators during EXAMS. My students can use any device during Lecture, but...
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SlideRule

Greetings, I remember back to the day when I used my slide rule at the college level... my professors (UMKC) would inspect each slide rule to make certain *nothing* was hand written with an H pencil on or between the scales! ;-) Also, see my next response below.

Cheers,
marcus

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RE: WP34s Birthday Gift @ ISU - troll80 - 02-26-2015, 01:03 AM
RE: WP34s Birthday Gift @ ISU - SlideRule - 02-26-2015, 02:08 PM
RE: WP34s Birthday Gift @ ISU - MarkHaysHarris777 - 02-26-2015 04:29 PM
RE: WP34s Birthday Gift @ ISU - walter b - 02-26-2015, 05:38 PM
RE: WP34s Birthday Gift @ ISU - BarryMead - 02-27-2015, 03:56 AM
RE: WP34s Birthday Gift @ ISU - SlideRule - 02-27-2015, 02:07 PM
RE: WP34s Birthday Gift @ ISU - troll80 - 02-28-2015, 04:13 PM
RE: WP34s Birthday Gift @ ISU - BarryMead - 03-23-2015, 05:33 PM
RE: WP34s Birthday Gift @ ISU - rprosperi - 03-23-2015, 06:25 PM
RE: WP34s Birthday Gift @ ISU - BarryMead - 03-23-2015, 09:55 PM
RE: WP34s Birthday Gift @ ISU - CR Haeger - 03-24-2015, 01:31 PM



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