Re: Ask Sooga about being a high school math teacher.. ugh
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Could you for the love of god please get your students to be able to do math without a calculator. I have students who can't tell me what 7*6 is without using a calculator. Others can't do long division.
Basically, without a calculator they cannot do any sort of math. I blame the HS math programs for most of this. They have gotten the students into the habit of using a calculator on every single simple math problem.
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Wow. At my college we aren't allowed to use calculators ever.* Granted, this is at an engineering school and professors occasionally give questions where they are like "only go up to (X part of problem)," but if you're in calculus or differential equations, you're expected to do it on paper.
* Sometimes there are exceptions: in linear algebra, you can do things like invert matrices by calculator. But even then professors always toss in a problem with letters and variables, so you'll be doing it by hand eventually.
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