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Hey all my graphic-calculator-programming friends...can you top this?
Student Discovers Calculator Flaw
RICHMOND-Texas Instruments is replacing about 160,000 school calculators in Virginia after an observant sixth-grader discovered a function that would have given students an unfair advantage on standardized tests.
The state's education department asked Texas Instruments two years ago to disable the function that converts decimals to fractions because students are required to know how to do that with paper and pencil on statewide tests.
But in January, Dakota Brown, a 12-year-old at Carver Middle School in suburban Richmond's Chesterfield County, figured out that by pressing two other keys on his approved TI-30 Xa SE VA, he could change decimals to into fractions anyway.
The fraction label had been removed, but the programming apparently hadn't.
My mom found this in the examiner. I find it rather funny. Yay for the geniuses at Texas Instruments!
Student Discovers Calculator Flaw
RICHMOND-Texas Instruments is replacing about 160,000 school calculators in Virginia after an observant sixth-grader discovered a function that would have given students an unfair advantage on standardized tests.
The state's education department asked Texas Instruments two years ago to disable the function that converts decimals to fractions because students are required to know how to do that with paper and pencil on statewide tests.
But in January, Dakota Brown, a 12-year-old at Carver Middle School in suburban Richmond's Chesterfield County, figured out that by pressing two other keys on his approved TI-30 Xa SE VA, he could change decimals to into fractions anyway.
The fraction label had been removed, but the programming apparently hadn't.
My mom found this in the examiner. I find it rather funny. Yay for the geniuses at Texas Instruments!