[Edu-sig] seasonal challenge to calculator dominance in high schools

[kirby urner]

Somewhere every summer, I tend to call into question the wisdom of buying
the kids another scientific calculator at the drug store (we call them that
here, pharmacies have calculators hanging on racks at the checkout, to cash
in on gullibility and impulse buys).

This year:
https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/4dsolutions/School_of_Tomorrow/blob/master/Sandbox_Example.ipynb

That's of course the read-only version (vs. mybinder.org) with the benefit
of a free video at the bottom, not visible on Github, where I give my
viewers the elevator speech i.e. pitch Jupyter Notebooks using Python as
superior to slaving away with a graphing calculator.

Not that anyone is still using graphing calculators right?  Sorry if I'm
beating a dead horse (idiom).

Kirby
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