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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Desmos was taught, and needs to be to some extent, because that is now the only calculator you're allowed to use on the SOLs starting this year.  Science included.  It shouldn't be their only understanding of how to get an answer though[/quote]

The whole calculator discussion is moot. No amount of calculator skills will make up for a lack of fundamentals. The more a student is dependent on calculators for computation, the worse they do, because they have no number sense and have no idea what they're putting in and what they expect the calculator output to be. They press a wrong key and everything is wrong and they have no idea.[/quote]

I agree.

I posted earlier about putting my kid in Catholic school to fill holes from distance learning.

One other benefit was they didn't use calculators or desmos in Algebra I.  Only Geometry, and that was later in the year.

Not using a calculator was HARD for my kid who usually got all As in math.  But, as the year went on she started to get faster, more accurate and more intuitive with her computations and math in general.  By the end of the year, she was quite confident in math.  During her summer online Algebra I class, ai thought she would use the calculator.  Surprisingly, she didn't touch it other than to occasionally double check some her computations.

Fcps is over reliant on technology and is missing the fundamentals.

I think it was accelerated by distance learning.  I don't recall my oldest who graduated in 2019, or even my current senior being so reliant on calculators and cheats to do math.  [/quote]

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