TOEFL_ speaking practice part 1,2

1. Which do you think is better for students? Using calculators or calculating by themselves? Give specific details to support your answer.

* My answer

As far as I concerned that I strongly believe that calculating by themselves is better for students.To begin with, it develops their mathematics mind and skill.In other words, calculating itself has its own function to boost mathematics skill. Furthermore, there are a lot of cases on which we should calculate by ourselves.

Let’s suppose.we are in the grocery store and we are suppose to buy milk for next week. There are lots of type of milk on the shelve. In the meantime we find one milk brand is on sale for 30 percent off, but we should buy it two at a time to get a discount. How can we do?

 In brief, we are encountering  such situations a lot in our daily life. Thus, we should practice it whenever we study it. Otherwise, reliance on calculator will rise and when the ability is needed, we can not handle it.

* Eaxmple answer

As far as I am concerned, I strongly believe that using calculators is better for students.To begin with, students can boost their interest on math.To be specific, students can concentrate on other parts of math by using the time that was formerly used to calculate numerical formulas.On top of that, calculators can prevent mistakes.To suggest my own experience, I missed one question on the math test because of my simple calculation error and if there was a calculator, I might got a better grade in my university.In a nutshell, I strongly believe that students can get some advantages by using calculators.

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