Comments on: Goodbye, Eureka http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2009/07/12/goodbye-eureka/ Twisted by Jessica Zafra - Pumping irony since 1994 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:20:48 +0000 hourly 1 By: abet http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2009/07/12/goodbye-eureka/comment-page-1/#comment-40489 abet Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:39:57 +0000 http://jessicarulestheuniverse.com/?p=3590#comment-40489 Engaging students to learn should be paramount to our good teacher's aims... Wolfram Alpha's a pretty good tool for complex computations. Am just wondering what you folks can say about this article... http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2009/07/13/i_want_my_cybor.html Engaging students to learn should be paramount to our good teacher’s aims… Wolfram Alpha’s a pretty good tool for complex computations.
Am just wondering what you folks can say about this article…
http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2009/07/13/i_want_my_cybor.html

]]> By: capitanmontressor http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2009/07/12/goodbye-eureka/comment-page-1/#comment-40481 capitanmontressor Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:52:22 +0000 http://jessicarulestheuniverse.com/?p=3590#comment-40481 Without good study, most buttons in them fancy-schamncy doohickey calculators is rendered useless. Without good study, most buttons in them fancy-schamncy doohickey calculators is rendered useless.

]]> By: dandilopez http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2009/07/12/goodbye-eureka/comment-page-1/#comment-40459 dandilopez Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:02:44 +0000 http://jessicarulestheuniverse.com/?p=3590#comment-40459 I'm a physics teacher, and when I read the paper this morning and saw your article, I thought this would be a serious problem. I just checked the site out, and I think it won't pose much of a problem for teachers. The site still requires some amount of analysis on the students' part before they can use the program. Some modern calculators are also able to perform the same functions, but math classes prevail over them. At least these things would force educators to teach students how to think, not merely to solve problems that have skeleton solutions. I’m a physics teacher, and when I read the paper this morning and saw your article, I thought this would be a serious problem. I just checked the site out, and I think it won’t pose much of a problem for teachers. The site still requires some amount of analysis on the students’ part before they can use the program.

Some modern calculators are also able to perform the same functions, but math classes prevail over them. At least these things would force educators to teach students how to think, not merely to solve problems that have skeleton solutions.

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