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Remember how the Macintosh rewrote all the rules of what a personal computer should be in 1984? Looks like TI is doing it for calculators today. This will be interesting.
It strikes me that a reinvention of the calculator is long overdue. This thing looks interesting. I'll reserve judgement until I get my hands on one, however. 8)
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Howard
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I am particularly impressed that the model in the introductory video is a teenage girl.
I am surrounded by women my age who not only think my calculator fetish is a bit weird but who clearly were educated in the days when math and science education was very much a boys' club. That said, I just read in the paper here that one of the highest performing schools here on standardized tests in math is a Catholic girls' school.
I really do hope that things are changing for the better. Disparities in numeracy based on gender are nothing to be proud of.
Les