[Blindmath] Scientific calculator for high-school student

[Lewicki, Maureen]

NY state

Maureen Lewicki
Teacher of the Visually Impaired
Bethlehem Central Schools
700 Delaware Avenue
Delmar, NY 12054
http://bcsd.k12.ny.us/


On Nov 17, 2013, at 3:18 PM, "Ken Perry" <kperry at blinksoft.com<mailto:kperry at blinksoft.com>> wrote:

Which school and state I am just interested.

Ken

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Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Scientific calculator for high-school student

Actually yes. Introducing a graphing calculator too early is a common
problem and American schools. I recently got out of high school and I'm in
college, and when I was in middle school, we're talking sixth and seventh
grade, everyone was using a graphing calculator except me because one didn't
exist for the blind yet. In Thailand however, things are probably different.
When you get to higher-level math like trigonometry and calculus, it becomes
impractical and takes away from learning the concepts when you have to do
difficult problem my hand.

On Nov 16, 2013, at 1:51 PM, Susan Jolly <easjolly at ix.netcom.com<mailto:easjolly at ix.netcom.com>> wrote:

I'm confused.  Do students just learn keystrokes now and no longer have to
understand the underlying math?

SusanJ
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