Soundoff: A Case against Computer Symbolic Manipulation in School Mathematics Today
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The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and leaders in mathematics education must move vigorously to build a consensus for acceptance of the Curriculum and Evaluation Standards (NCTM 1989). One important assumption of the Curriculum and Evaluation Standards is that all students should use computers and graphing calculators on a regular basis in school mathematics. The symbol-manipulating ability of such computer algebra systems (CAS) as the IBM Math Exploration Tool Kit, Mathematics™, and Derive™ can be used today in school mathematics to do algebra. However, we take exception to the use of computer symbol manipulation in school mathematics today for two important reasons.
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2003 ◽
Vol 35
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pp. 20-23
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1984 ◽
Vol 15
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pp. 3-14
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