PrepTest C2, Section 3, Question 18
Education critics' contention that the use of calculators in mathematics classes will undermine students' knowledge of the rationale underlying calculational procedures is clearly false. Every new information-handling technology has produced virtually the same accusation. Some Greek philosophers, for example, believed that the advent of written language would erode people's capacity to remember information and speak extemporaneously.
Education critics' contention that the use of calculators in mathematics classes will undermine students' knowledge of the rationale underlying calculational procedures is clearly false. Every new information-handling technology has produced virtually the same accusation. Some Greek philosophers, for example, believed that the advent of written language would erode people's capacity to remember information and speak extemporaneously.
Education critics' contention that the use of calculators in mathematics classes will undermine students' knowledge of the rationale underlying calculational procedures is clearly false. Every new information-handling technology has produced virtually the same accusation. Some Greek philosophers, for example, believed that the advent of written language would erode people's capacity to remember information and speak extemporaneously.
Education critics' contention that the use of calculators in mathematics classes will undermine students' knowledge of the rationale underlying calculational procedures is clearly false. Every new information-handling technology has produced virtually the same accusation. Some Greek philosophers, for example, believed that the advent of written language would erode people's capacity to remember information and speak extemporaneously.
The reasoning in the argument above is most vulnerable to criticism on the grounds that the argument
presents only evidence whose relevancy to the issue raised by the opponents has not been established
draws a conclusion based on an ambiguous notion of knowledge
takes for granted that the advantages offered by new information-handling technologies always outweigh the disadvantages
takes a condition that suffices to prove its conclusion to be a condition necessary for the truth of that conclusion
concludes that a hypothesis is false simply because it contradicts other beliefs held by the advocates of that hypothesis
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