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Green tech calculators you can count on, literally

Green tech calculators you can count on, literallyGreat resourcesHeather,Thank you for bringing the whole CO2/Green calculator topic to the IT community. Many of us are well aware of these tools for general home use or travel but you have identified some excellent resources for the IT community. Doug Washburn?s Green...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, information technology, calculator, tool, green technology

Discussion threads 2009-02-20

Don???t Bet On The Calculator. Bet On The Thinker.

Don???t Bet On The Calculator. Bet On The Thinker.Um...no.I was an outside vendor (Contingent Worker in GS-speak) for 8 months at Goldman in NYC last year and I don't see a lot of similarity between the actual people there and the ones described in this article. There were very, very...

Tags: Calculator

Discussion threads 2009-02-11

Maple Professional 7.12 (Windows)

Maple Professional is the flagship of the tree outline managers for power users. Features: It offers all features of Maple, plus several advanced commands of interest to the professional users. The advanced features of the Professional edition of Maple are: Finder - an advanced search utility. It makes it...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Backup System, Tree, Crystal Office Systems, Maple Professional, Calculator, Backups

Software downloads 2008-12-02

And the calculator saga continues

And the calculator saga continuesre: calculatorsThis is sadly true. When I was getting my MS in math, I had a TA ship and was often assigned to freshman calculus. There were questions like "compute the first derivative", "find the min/max points", "find the inflection points" etc. of a given function...

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Discussion threads 2008-10-05

My growing hatred for calculators

My growing hatred for calculatorsNokids need to think mathematically when doing math and programmatically when programming and literarily when reading literature, etc.Spreadsheeting for math? Joy. We all get to castrate mathematical symbology in order to shoehorn it into a spreadsheet cell t=sqrt(a^3)Wonderful.I guess when the only thing you know is...

Tags: Microsoft Excel, PRODUCTIVITY, calculator, Mathcad

Discussion threads 2008-10-03

$500 Edubuntu = "a complete waste of money"?

$500 Edubuntu = "a complete waste of money"?Have to agreeAn incredible waste of money.

Tags: Edubuntu

Discussion threads 2008-08-21

iPhone App store; why do we need 10 tip calculators?

iPhone App store; why do we need 10 tip calculators?But Apple invented all of this[i]First, it felt like I was browsing the PalmGear site[/i]The #1 feature of the iPhone 2.0 is that Apple invented the ability to install 3rd party applications onto your phone. Are you telling me that this...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Apple iPhone, tip calculator, Apple Inc., calculator

Discussion threads 2008-07-11

Has math instruction actually changed in the last 40 years?

Has math instruction actually changed in the last 40 years?It depends....In my kids' school district, math teaching is geared toward taking the district assessments and focuses specifically on learning what will be on the next assessment. Assessments are given quarterly. While this school district didn't exist 40 years...

Tags: math instruction, calculator

Discussion threads 2008-04-30

Yes, you can use your calculators

Yes, you can use your calculatorsso true...In a couple of years I will begin to teach middle school math, so more than likely it'll be some sort of algebra. I think that it will definitely be crucial for these kids not to become too dependent on calculators. IDK...

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Discussion threads 2007-11-27

What happened to HP calculators?

What happened to HP calculators?Back to the FutureBelieve it or not, I just got my physics major son a slide rule.It seems that the calculators now have enough symbolic-math capability and storage that his profs are banning them from exams (/me recalls the hot debates 35 years ago regarding the...

Tags: calculator, Hewlett-Packard Co., Texas Instruments Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-07-12

What happened to HP calculators?

I have to go buy a new calculator for my combinatorics class, as well as for the physics classes I'm teaching next year. While my old HP 48G still works, it lacks the connectivity options I need for in-class demos and it's painfully slow. To HP's credit, it...

Tags: Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-07-12

Google calculator - it's no TI-89, but it's pretty cool

Google calculator - it's no TI-89, but it's pretty coolGoogle Search Bar in FirefoxThis even works using Google's search bar in Firefox 2.xI agreeit pretty much solve my equation, so it's worth it, if you say TI-89, then you are right, it's not related, specially on graphical equations that involve...

Tags: Web browsers, Google Inc., TI-89, calculator

Discussion threads 2007-07-09

Choosing the right PSU for your PC

So, just how big a power supply unit does a PC really need? In this post Ill show you how you can work out how big a PSU your system needs and some of the considerations that you need to keep in mind when buying a PSU.It seems to...

Tags: Desktops, PSU, PC, calculator

Blog posts 2007-03-09

If calculators=Chuck E. Cheese employee, then computers=?

A recent post of mine Revenge of the calculators seemed to ring true with quite a few readers. I think that most math teachers would agree wholeheartedly that an overreliance on calculators has done an awful lot of damage to students computational skills. Most would also agree that...

Tags: calculator, Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-02-02

Revenge of the calculators

Revenge of the calculatorsFantasticIm a 16 yr old, yr 11 student in Australia.This is a fantastic, 100% correct article.At school last year, i studied the accelerated maths course, meaning we studied the IGSCE equivilent or one year ahead.Without a basic algebraic and arithmetic knowledge, which can be implented quickly you...

Tags: Calculators, calculator

Discussion threads 2007-01-28

Revenge of the calculators

I took my kids to Chuck E. Cheese today. We had a great time eating pizza and playing games and, as always, the kids racked up quite a few tickets. For those of you who have never had the pleasure of going to one of these epicenters of...

Tags: Education Technology, calculator, Chuck E. Cheese

Blog posts 2007-01-27

Students show off online work in state capitol

Michigan students from third grade on up are headed off to the state capital to show legislators how they use high tech in their classrooms, reports The Daily Telegram. Students travelled to show off what cool things theyve been doing with their class blogs, graphing calculators and...

Tags: Blogging, calculator, Jon Musolf

Blog posts 2006-11-14

Free Calculator 1 (Windows)

Free Calculator. You can use Calculator to perform any of the standard operations for which you would normally use a handheld calculator. Calculator performs basic arithmetic, such as addition and subtraction, as well as functions found on a scientific calculator, such as logarithms. The game interface is quite simple so...

Tags: Academy-info, Calculator, Handhelds, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2006-10-03

A matter of perspective

A matter of perspectiveComputer tax?We have a new superintendent in our district who actually thinks that IT infrastructure spending is both necessary and beneficial. I'm afraid that our school committee is not yet in agreement, but we're working on that. At least this guy asked me what I...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Taxes, calculator, computer, tax, Microsoft PowerPoint

Discussion threads 2006-07-05

Why calculators are scarier than MySpace

Fellow blogger, George Ou, and I had a very interesting exchange this weekend over Marc Wegner's post on the Lame $100 Laptop. In a nutshell, we came to the conclusion that it was very easy to jump on the more-technology-is-better bandwagon, but much harder to address fundamental underlying deficiencies in...

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Blog posts 2006-04-09