June 09, 2005
Kid Hacks Calculator, Forces Recall
Looks like Dakota Brown from a Richmond suburb in Virginia found that by pressing two buttons at the same time, he could get his state crippled TI calculator to compute fractions from decimals.
The state had ordered this function crippled for calculators for middle school students.
Here's an statement from a school official:
"His fellow students were so proud of him and congratulatory. They thought it was really, really cool. They didn't call him a nerd or anything," said Michael Bolling, a school official in Chesterfield County.
Posted by Bryant at June 9, 2005 12:46 AM