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Old 03-17-11, 08:12 PM   #52
Obelix
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Originally Posted by TheDarkWraith View Post
... School kids are REQUIRED to have a $200 calculator that does graphing in my community. These kids have no idea how to do long division let alone graph a quadratic equation. They do know how to type it into the calculator and get the result though
Unfortunately, this practice is widely implemented in Russia, designed ostensibly to improve education.
But stop, we escaped from the topic, it's time to stop. Must speak of this in another topic.
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