01-14-2020, 04:43 AM
Buzz wrote:
Why don't your adult students either just buy a $50 - $60 one that you note, and keep it for the long haul, or resell it after their classes are over, and likely recoup their investment? Why is your responsibility as an educator to provide a stable of lendable calculators?
Good luck.
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Fair question. This particular campus is located within a downtown homeless/community centre (note the spelling) in Vancouver. The students run the gamut from being homeless, to being in recovery, to having decent jobs.
True, it’s not my responsibility. I seem to be the only one who works there with an interest. The other teachers never learned how to use graphing calculators themselves and don’t really care about them. When students come with questions about how to use a graphing calculator, the teachers’ responses are to send them to me. A substitute teacher explained to me that when she was teaching a regular math class she would skip over all of the sections that involved a graphing calculator. Apparently, not all of the students could afford them.
thanks again, Todd’s y= board