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- From: akcs.joehorn@hpcvbbs.cv.hp.com (Joseph K. Horn)
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 07:40:03 GMT
- Subject: Re: The "high price" of the HP48!
- Message-ID: <2b396772.2480.13comp.sys.hp48.1@hpcvbbs.cv.hp.com>
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- References: <19DEC199213241557@pavo.concordia.ca> <1992Dec22.144437.11595@mixco
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- dl_mill@pavo.concordia.ca [MILLER, DARREL L.] writes:
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- > Do other universities allow them, encourage their use or maybe (god
- > forbid) actually teach students how to use [HP programmable
- > calculators]?
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- Yes, yes, and yes. And our tribe is rapidly increasing.
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- kolstad@cae.wisc.edu [Joel Kolstad] adds:
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- > I think... Joe Horn???... one of the frequent contributors to this
- > newsgroup, anyway, is a math professor, and _does_ encourage the use
- > of calculating machines in his curriculum.
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- The word is *require*. The real world requires it, so I require it.
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- > Unfortunately, this doesn't happen very darn often overall...
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- True, but you can't stop an idea whose time has come. Before you know
- it, programmable calculators will be de rigueur in all curricula, and
- the hot new debate will be whether to allow handheld interactive
- satellite video in the classroom.
-
- -Joseph K. Horn- -Peripheral Vision, Ltd.-
- akcs.joehorn@hpcvbbs.cv.hp.com
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