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The Case For Computer Based Math (www.computerbasedmath.org)
posted 2 years ago by sparrow (+2 / -0 )
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> CBM is a new subject that starts from maths in the real world and works back to redefine the educational subject to match. A crucial change is to have computer-based (rather than human-powered) computation at its heart—redefining maths as the anchor subject for computational thinking across all subjects, centred on real-life problem solving, not historical hand-calculating techniques.
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sparrow
2 years ago 0 points (+0 / -0 )
yeah, I go back and forth on how much manual / mental versus human calculation we need
 
I do think a case can be made for outsourcing all the calculation to the computers and just having us do higher reasoning or lower level thinking simply to identify what calculations need to be made instead of making them
 
it's like digging a hole. If we have excavator machines, do we need to teach kids to dig with a shovel? More manual calculation is only really needed if we get in to a survival scenario where we can't have access to a calculator device or computer to calculate with. Otherwise we would be more productive just teaching how to operate the machines.
 
Since we have limited time to teach, we could possibly cover more ground by not teaching manual / mental calculation so much as how to operate calculators and computers more. Maybe just an idea of how to calculate if you need it in a pinch.
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