Scientific Calculator

Scientific or graphing calculator? What do students need to purchase?

As they grow older and get older, the list of school supplies might be shorter, however, it's not necessarily less expensive.

One item that can cause sticker shock to parents of high and middle school students is an specialized calculator. Some schools prefer that students use their own scientific calculator. In the highest level math courses, such as Advanced Calculus an graphing calculator may be required.

What's the difference? A scientific calculator is able to perform functions that go beyond subtraction, addition division and multiplication. Scientific calculators typically have special buttons for parentheses, trigonometric calculations, exponents inverted numbers and pi in addition to many other things.

A graphing calculator does even more. It'll have a larger screen, allowing you to type in a function, then display a graph of it.

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However, Best Buy says you aren't required to purchase one. Best Buy suggests checking with your school first.

Harmony Weinberg, Edmonds School District's public relations and media supervisor she tells KOMO News each individual school is responsible for its own policy.

"For higher level classes, like AP Calculus, it is often expected that students have a handheld graphing calculator, such as TI-83, TI-84 or TI-89."

These kinds of calculators can be used for AP tests. Weinberg states that schools also have a system in place for students to borrow calculators, like they do textbooks if they don't have or prefer not to purchase their own.

For the Edmonds Education district the calculators are dealt with in the same way as textbooks, in the sense of damages or losses, however, they don't have any fees to make use of.

Another possibility could be on their school-issued laptop. Weinberg states that that in Edmonds "all students have access to scientific and graphing calculators through their district-issued Chromebook." The district encourages teachers to use Desmos online calculators because they are used on state assessments too.

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West Seattle family says school policies on quarantine are biased against those who have not been vaccinated

from Joel Moreno, KOMO News reporterSaturday, September 18th 2021

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SEATTLE A family from West Seattle say their young son was told to stay home when he came into contact with one who was positive for COVID-19. The incident prompted family members to claim that he was targeted and was treated differently by school district officials since the boy has not been vaccine-free..

This week, a 12-year-old student who is a student at Denny International Middle School was exposed to someone in class who was diagnosed with COVID-19.

Officials at his school told the student to stay at home for two weeks as the vaccine he received was not up to date.

The family said that they've recently learned that had he been vaccinated, the 7th grade student would not be compelled to miss class for as in the event that he was not showing signs of the disease.

"My kid has no symptoms," said Jeremy Gollyhorn, the boy's father. "He's totally healthy. How can he not get an unfavorable COVID test and come back to school?"

Gollyhorn stated that his son is being kept to a higher standard than other students who've received their shots. Even if he showed a negative COVID-19 testresult, the child will not be allowed back into school until the two-week quarantine has expired.

Close contacts that are fully immunized and have no symptoms don't need to stay in quarantine. They can go back to school, but they are advised to be tested every three to five days to ensure.

Gollyhorn declared that it isn't making sense.

"Vaccinated people can still spread COVID too so what's the difference there?" He said.

A spokesperson for the school said Seattle Public Schools is following the health guidelines of public schools set for the school by the state.

Gollyhorn declared that the policy robs people of their choice. He added that his family isn't convinced by the vaccinations, and instances like this just make him want to fight back.

As of Seattle Public Schools started the school year on Sept. 1st, the school district has reported 117 positive COVID-19 cases and Denny International Middle School has reported four positive cases during the same time.

It's not known how many staff and students have been instructed to quarantine because of exposures. However, the absences are considered to be excused.