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Re: currculum support for use of calculators on GED 2002
Posted:
Mar 17, 2000 7:11 PM
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Well, as a staunch user of Macs, I'd point out that in education, at
least, there are still a ton of Macs out there. But as to using any
but a TI calculator as the standard, it seems indeed ludicrous. On
the other hand, why have a specific BRAND of calculator designated as
official? That seems really illegal. How can the GED folks ban
various brands, as opposed to types (e.g., I can see restricting
things to scientific, or graphing, or banning non-pocket calculators
(though the HP 48s and TI-89s are enormously powerful and there will
be more and better where they came from. Casio? Sharp? Gee, why not
Tandy?
Say, isn't John McCain chair of the Commerce Committee?
At 1:34 PM -0500 3/17/00, G Page wrote:
>This makes no sense when you take into account that upwards of 85-90% of
>math teachers in the United States use TExas Instruments calculators.
>This is akind to forcing
>someone who uses a PC to start using a MAC. Sure, math teachers can adapt
>and shift their Kuhnian paradigms in this scientific revolution but it
>only creates more work and many are tired of reinventing the technological
>wheel. Am I correct?
>Also, I am not a stockholder or employee of Texas Instruments.
>Defendit Numeris,
>
>G. Andrew Page
>University of Georgia
>College of Education
>850 College Station Road
>Rm. 102 River's Crossing
>Athens, GA 30602 USA
>(706) 613 8520
>gapage@uga.edu
>http://www.arches.uga.edu/~gapage/index.html
>On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Garland John Gates wrote:
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>> The GED Testing Service has selected the Casio fx-260 solar calculator as
>> the official calculator of the GED test.
>>
>> Garland John Gates
>> ABLE/GED Coordinator Instructor
>> Pioneer Career & Technology Center
>> Shelby, Ohio, USA
>>
>>
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