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...week when 121,000 high school seniors file into classrooms around the country to take the calculus Advanced Placement examination, they will need to come armed with more than a couple of sharpened No. 2 pencils and a firm grasp of derivatives; they will also require the latest that math technology has to offer. Under new rules set by the College Board, all students who take the test must have a hand-held graphing calculator. Those who lack this powerful machine, which graphs complex equations, will have to sign a waiver stating that they will not challenge their scores...
...through technology, graphing calculators are to calculus students what microwave ovens are to popcorn lovers; once the device is used, there is no going back. "If you don't use this technology, then you're really teaching as if you were in the 1940s," says Judith Broadwin, an A.P. math teacher at Jericho High School in New York. "The few people who object to this do so because they're afraid...
Because they both started getting tired of math, they decided to change concentrations at the same time...
...didn't like math. It was too the-oretical," Nyala says. "It was starting to get on my nerves...
...think the legal profession is justifiably nervous for several reasons. First, lawyers have never been the most beloved members of our society. They occupy the same position as a math nerd in junior high--we go to her when we need help, but that doesn't mean we'd like to take her to the movies...