SOLUTION: Why do students have to use calculaters in school mow when they didny in the past to solve equations??

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Question 643513: Why do students have to use calculaters in school mow when they didny in the past to solve equations??
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Why do students have to use calculaters in school mow when they didny in the past to solve equations??
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They're cheap, and everyone has one.
Calculators replaced slide rules.
Neither was used to solve equations, tho, only to do the calculations and look up logs and trig functions.