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Re: Saxon ad
Posted:
Feb 27, 1995 8:54 AM
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At 09:44 AM 26/2/95, Andrei TOOM wrote:
>On Sun, 26 Feb 1995, Dagfinn Eggen wrote:
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>> The most important thing about calculators at K-4 level (AM I RIGHT WHEN I
>> SAY THAT K-4 IS ABOUT 10 YEARS OLD CHILDREN?) is, in my opinion, that it is
>> a tool for computing (AND NOT PIMARILY FOR PROBLEM SOLVING!!) that means
>> that ordinary division, multiplication, subtraction and adding becomes much
>> easier.
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>So the ultimate goal is to get computing done ?
Good heavens, no!
The goal are not the means!
We have at least wo goals here. The ultimate goal are problem solving.
Another goal is math-understanding.
Calculators are tools just as a hammer is a tool for a carpenter.
>Then, of course, calculators are grrrreat.
>But what for children are in this context ?
>Eliminate them from the picture, hire a few professionals
>or program a super-computer to do all the computing.
>It will be faster and simpler.
>Andrei Toom
Why not eliminate the teachers also.
Dagfinn
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Ladehammeren videregaaende skole
Trondheim, NORWAY
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