[A83] Re: Symbolic...


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[A83] Re: Symbolic...




I just received an email from the IB help desk.  Just to set the record
straight, they do NOT permit ANY CAS on their exams.  There is no
distinction between built in CASes and programs modifying the calculator to
perform symbolic algebra or calculus.

Brandon Sterner

----- Original Message -----
From: "Patai Gergely" <patai.ti@freemail.hu>
To: <assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 3:51 PM
Subject: [A83] Re: Symbolic...


>
> > he gave it to an inspection guy too. And now it's
> forbidden...
>
> This is quite interesting. I just had a talk with my former
> IB maths teacher, and he said that although calculators
> with CAS are not allowed on IB exams, if there is a program
> written to an originally non-CAS calc (if I recall
> correctly exactly the TI-83+ is the most advanced one
> allowed) that performs symbolic operations, it cannot be
> forbidden either. The only kind of programs that is
> forbidden is dummy programs which serve as little
> electronic formula booklets. Of course this is IB. But I
> don't see any sense in forbiding programs, mostly because
> programmers who are smart enough to make them are also
> smart enough to hide them well... Then why are programmable
> calculators allowed at all anyway? For example, we are not
> allowed to use anything for the linear algebra exams, not
> even a simple calc that performs only elementary
> operations. As regards calculus, we could, but no solution
> is accepted without explanation/proper derivation (and
> Symbolic wouldn't help with triple integrals either).
> Probably teachers should wake up and realise that the
> calculators have gone through serious changes and construct
> new exercises that fit the new technology better... This is
> just a great opportunity to confront them with their
> laziness. :)
>
> PG
>
>
>
>




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