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Our school arguably weathered online learning with more ease because we were already a one-to-one school with Chromebooks and we had trained all of our teachers to reliable use Google Classroom and Google Tools as well as a wide variety of other online resources. I believe that our students will continue to benefit from being savvy with the technology available to them, and these calculators fill an important niche of their learning because they empower students who pursue careers in STEM. The necessity of a personal calculator remains, despite advances in the capability of online calculators like Desmos dot com. Many Science, Math, and Engineering classrooms in High School and college continue to administer in-person tests and finals, and they expect their students to not have access to the internet during these exams. For this reason, students who are only comfortable with calculator apps on their phone, or browser calculators will be at a significant disadvantage unless they get experience using a powerful handheld calculator with no internet capabilities. I intend to have my students learn skills specific to modeling data that exhibits linear growth and exponential growth as these two models are a focus of the ninth-grade math curriculum. We'll do projects that start with data collection, then we'll have discussions about which type of model fits the data best, and then we'll get into how to use the calculator's built-in functions to make linear and exponential regression models for our data. Finally, we'll discuss residuals and variation in the data, as well as outliers and weaknesses of each model. My hope is that after developing a strong grasp of how to use the graphical features of this calculator, my students will more easily access the Calculus-specific features when they are in that class.

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Our school arguably weathered online learning with more ease because we were already a one-to-one school with Chromebooks and we had trained all of our teachers to reliable use Google Classroom and Google Tools as well as a wide variety of other online resources. I believe that our students will continue to benefit from being savvy with the technology available to them, and these calculators fill an important niche of their learning because they empower students who pursue careers in STEM. The necessity of a personal calculator remains, despite advances in the capability of online calculators like Desmos dot com. Many Science, Math, and Engineering classrooms in High School and college continue to administer in-person tests and finals, and they expect their students to not have access to the internet during these exams. For this reason, students who are only comfortable with calculator apps on their phone, or browser calculators will be at a significant disadvantage unless they get experience using a powerful handheld calculator with no internet capabilities. I intend to have my students learn skills specific to modeling data that exhibits linear growth and exponential growth as these two models are a focus of the ninth-grade math curriculum. We'll do projects that start with data collection, then we'll have discussions about which type of model fits the data best, and then we'll get into how to use the calculator's built-in functions to make linear and exponential regression models for our data. Finally, we'll discuss residuals and variation in the data, as well as outliers and weaknesses of each model. My hope is that after developing a strong grasp of how to use the graphical features of this calculator, my students will more easily access the Calculus-specific features when they are in that class.

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