How calculator games took over schools

More info and sources at bottom. Find me elsewhere: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philedwardsinc/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/philedwardsinc Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/philedwardsinc Where I get my music (Free trial affiliate link): https://share.epidemicsound.com/olkrqv My camera, as of February 2022 (affiliate link): https://amzn.to/3HDcWVz My main lens: https://amzn.to/3IteXEK My main light: https://amzn.to/3pjO0M8 My main light accessory: https://amzn.to/3M6eL0j Hey there thanks for watching, and big thanks again to the people who contributed to this. Here are some sources - it’s a bit of a hodgepodge because, honestly, a lot of it was too niche to include in a video, but there’s a lot to dig into. You Tube Channels: The TI Wizard https://www.youtube.com/@TheTIWizard Squakewars https://www.youtube.com/@Squakenet http://tistory.wikidot.com/ Smithsonian’s calculator: https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_1329686 An Agenda for Action: https://www.nctm.org/flipbooks/standards/agendaforaction/html5/index.html NYT about “prose of math.” https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1988/07/19/697388.html?pageNumber=61 Sample curriculum: https://archive.org/details/curriculumevalua00nati/page/210/mode/2up?q=calculator Wiki about the Math Wars - I was gonna include this in the calculator vid, but it is a bit broader than calculators and includes a larger scope curriculum debate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Math_wars This is the paper I read about that: https://www.ams.org/notices/199706/comm-calif.pdf Changes in the SAT in 1994: https://www.jstor.org/stable/27967440 A down and dirty retrospective on calculators in classes: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20871161 NYT on calcs: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1999/09/02/309044.html?pageNumber=90 History of Demana and Waits: https://www.nctm.org/Grants-and-Awards/Supporters/Franklin-D_-Demana-and-Bert-K_-Waits-Biographies/ Vintage TI Ad: https://archive.org/details/texas-instruments-computer-fun-commercial-1988 Teacher Leader Vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCN17TdwGa0&t=54s Icarus website: http://icarus.ticalc.org/ My favorite TI History website: http://tistory.wikidot.com An iconic close second (not because it’s worse, but it’s just less related to my needs doing the history stuff). https://www.ticalc.org/about/history.html Longer history of entrance exams. I originally was gonna include a beat about how the College Board really called the shots here, but the infamous “AGENDA FOR ACTION” made me think that the movement was best credited to start there, and may have proceeded regardless (though the College Board doubtless could have squashed anything if they had some crazed anti-calculator radicals in charge). https://www.jstor.org/stable/27562743 Good synopsis of Calculator controversies. Though the sorta granular nature of the timeline (it’s cool in this test, not on this test, etc) might make clear why I paper over some specifics, since they end up leading to a similar place, but have a lot of points where I might trip into small factual errors (that, IMHO, are irrelevant to the overall point of the vid). https://hackeducation.com/2015/03/12/calculators Some of the in depth studies that made me less arrogant about this stuff: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/j.2333-8504.1991.tb01371.x https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/j.2330-8516.1989.tb00328.x https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/j.2330-8516.1988.tb00265.x Sweeping thing about tech in Math: https://www.jstor.org/stable/27966502 Fun Wired story about Drug Wars and the programmer for TI: https://www.wired.com/story/history-drug-wars-calculator-game/