Comment on Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days agoYour special needs student using a calculator has pretty much no bearing on this conversation.
Comment on Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days agoYour special needs student using a calculator has pretty much no bearing on this conversation.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Even for students without disabilities, a calculator removes the cognitive demand of the arithmetic. If I am teaching algebra, I want most of their cognition to be taken up by the algebra, not the arithmetic.