In a message of , Matt Smith (1:3644/6) writes:
 MS>MS> No way.  And anyway, the spreadsheet can do awesome graphs of many 
 MS>MS> types,  
 MS>MS> helping kids to better grasp the meaning of the results.  
 MS>
 MS>    Unless HS and undergrad college chemistry changed radically since I 
 MS>took it within the past 17 years, you don't _need_ a spreadsheet to do 
 MS>"awesome graphs"...our _college_ labs tended to require simple 
 MS>calculations to determine the percentage efficiency of some synthesis, 
 MS>or analyzing a titration.
 MS>
You miss the point.  With the right tools, kids can ask different questions,  
get different insights, etc.  They are not limited by the tediousness of hand 
 calculations.  I's seen some very interesting insights when middle school 
kids  looked at water chemistry data with such tools.  They are a great aid 
for  getting kids to ask questions and think about what they are doing.
 
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