Re: Use of calculators on exams/in class

Geoffrey Akst (akst@CHELSEA.IOS.COM)
Wed, 17 Apr 1996 17:20:07 -0500

At 10:09 PM 4/16/96, Murphy Waggoner wrote:

>>Another option is to ask many concept questions and design questions that
>cannot be done or verified on the calculator (for example, in calculus the
>student could be given graphs of f' and f'' and certain points for f and
>asked to graph f). The problems with this is that there is not (yet) a
>repository for these types of questions available to the student or the
>instructor.

I believe that Murphy has made an important point. Can anyone prove us wrong?

Geoffrey Akst
Manhattan CC
akst@chelsea.ios.com