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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2012-10-05 05:47 pm

[ SECRET POST #2103 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2103 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Derren Brown - Trick of the Mind]


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04.
[Quantum Leap]


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06.
[Necessary Roughness]


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07. http://imageshack.us/a/img811/3861/tumblrm9siebsjna1rym8lc.jpg
[nudity which is possibly sexual? / illustrated]


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[Team Starkid]


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[Teen Wolf]


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[Evangelion]


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[High School of the Dead]


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15. [SPOILERS for Teen Wolf]



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16. [SPOILERS for Everything Burns/Journey Into Mystery]



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17. [SPOILERS for To Boldly Flee]



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18. [SPOILERS for Lord of the Rings]



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19. [SPOILERS for Homestuck]



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20. [WARNING for rape]



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American mathematics teaching

(Anonymous) 2012-10-05 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay, question. On some other community that I stumbled on, some people were making what were (to me) odd and surprising statements about the necessity of graphical calculators for learning and carrying out calculus and other advanced maths. Some of these statements are excerpted below:

[After someone suggests younger students do not need a graphical calculator] I"s he okay with scientific calculators, or should they all be looking up the evaluations of sin(21.7), etc, in tables somewhere?

Also, tbh, my math classes in HS were taught with a graphing calculator's capabilities in mind -- we certainly weren't taught, e.g. how to graph in radians by hand."


"You're not doing numeric inverse trig integrals, or finding the solution to e^x = cos(2x) in chemistry, though. You NEED a graphing calculator for those things."

My question is, are these statements an accurate reflection of how maths is taught in American schools and understood by people who have gone through it, or is this person full of it?