Delays by calculator

amsterdam - Mathematics Teachers fear to delay and disruption of the exams, now it reset this year required the graphing calculator.

This is necessary because there recently highly advanced programs and apps with computer algebra that can be installed on it and help to provide the answers to the exam questions.

The youngest generation of graphing calculators has a 'test mode', which is slightly less laborious than reset. But tens of thousands of students have an older graphics calculator. A total of approximately 180 000 children graduated in mathematics.

,, This reset is a hassle, 'explains Frans van Haandel math tutor at the College Heemlanden in Houten off.,, It takes quite some time and it involves large numbers of pupils. The question is whether we get so many calculators on time restart. Should we ask the candidates an hour earlier to come to school during the exams? Should teachers or resetting the machines let's do it the students themselves and we'll check it over, 'Van Haandel wonders.,, This is certainly cause incidents. '

Some schools have decided now to practice already in the classroom with reset. Teachers demonstrate that no programs, apps and notes can be stored in memory of the calculator. There are also schools that have already made compulsory the reset or test stand at their school exams by way of exercise and habituation.

There is also concern about the use of the graphing calculator as Gerard Koolstra, editor of the 'local paper' letter mathematics for mathematics teachers a range of opinions.,, There seems to be a clear consensus especially in maths B also ask questions that must be solved without the graphing calculator. '

But more and more teachers advocate the graphing calculator to completely throw in the trash, following subjects such as economics, physics and chemistry. Mathematics Teacher Karin den Heijer the gymnasium erasmianum in Rotterdam:,, I do not see why we use that thing. We can spend our time better. Since the introduction of the graphing calculator students have no idea how she must draw a graph. Calculating with roots? The calculator displays neatly the answer. Then you should not be surprised that students can no longer count with fractions or roots. The final exam math split into two parts? With simple solutions is clearly no glory. Throw the thing in the trash. Believe me, after a few years most can again count with fractions. That problem is solved immediately. '