People 30+: Do you remember taking math tests in middle school? And it was against the rules to use calculators? Your teachers would say snarky things like:
"Well, are you just gonna walk around with a calculator in your pocket for the rest of your life?"
... ACTUALLY YES 📲
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@candacerthomas
I’m 23 and they were saying that the whole entire time I was school - even when we DID HAVE CALCULATORS IN OUR PHONES!!!
When we mentioned our phones they’d be like “you may not have your phone on you !” Lmao
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@candacerthomas
My Dad also said that. The number of times I now pull out my phone to use my calculator in front of him is ... perhaps ... excessive.
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@candacerthomas
Lol yeah, JOKES ON THEM. Plus, after all the calculus classes, I still never use it.
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@candacerthomas
Yep, pen and paper it was until I studied Surveying, then it was allowed half the time.
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@candacerthomas
Currently working in a school, and they have (at least here) moved to just teach maths as a thing where you always have a calculator on you. The hardest thing they had to do in their head was 7th grade 11² , 12² etc - stuff that is practical to be able to do in your mind
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@candacerthomas
@Ciscoandchai
...All the time... every fucking test actually, unless it was like.. the first grade "How to use a calculator" test.
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@candacerthomas
Yeah, no, because I'm of that age where there were no real "pocket calculators" when I was in middle school.
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@candacerthomas
I'm 28, but I definitely remember my middle school math teachers being that way. My face when my Calculus/Lin. Algebra professors allowed programs like Mathematica on exams:
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@candacerthomas
The day I started as an engineer the company I work for provided me with this.
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@candacerthomas
i'm 'only' 28 but i remember this too! but then more advanced math in high school it was totally fine to and none of them made any snarky comments either.
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@candacerthomas
Do they still give snarky justifications against using a calculator to middle schoolers? Like, y'all know the gig is up right?
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@candacerthomas
Yes I do. Then in high school I had a standard deviation test which I programmed my calculator to do. Other students were pissed but my teacher thought that if I could do that I clearly understood the material
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@candacerthomas
Yep they always said that. Then I get to college and we can have. A calculator out for the tests.
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@candacerthomas
I’m under 30 (not by much though) and had that told to me in middle school and early high school 😂
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@candacerthomas
I remember having a younger teacher who said "you can use a programmable calculator, but you must program it yourself. *I* know how to program one and if you can't explain your program you get a zero." That's how I learned how to program mine with all the formulas. 😁 She ruled.
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