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Originally Posted by Penforhire
Reminds me a physics instructor who thought we were all too dependent on calculators. So we endured the first semester of physics using longhand calculations.
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Texas colleges have that rule for all Freshman- level math courses. Calculators don't come out until after Calculus III. Aaaand I might also mention that they're starting to require students take a math class every semester until they're totally done with the Core- so that's a minimum of four semesters without calculators.
The argument is that math "teaches you how to think," while literature is just stuff to be memorized. Never mind that the opposite is true; when there's only one correct way to get an answer, how much room is there for real thought?