In College Calculus 1, were you allowed to use calculators on tests and quizzes?

[Justin218]

I just registered for classes and looked at the calculus syllabus. It says that no calculators will be allowed on tests or quizzes. Is that how it normally is?

 

[UglyCasanova]

Nope.

 

[HappyPuppy]

No. They hadn't been invented yet.:Q

 

[TheBoyBlunder]

For some tests & quizzes we got to use our calculators. For most of them, however, we didn't.

 

[TommyVercetti]

Yeah we were. But when I came to Cal 3, no calculators allowed. So annoying.

 

[KEV1N]

It depends on the teacher, but mostly it's no. I can't remember the last time I've even needed a calculator in a college math course (I've graduated). I found it based less on plug n chug computation and more on concepts, but this is my experience.

 

[cressida]

where I took cal (Cal I - III) all the professors let us use calculators but on the test, they used symbols instead of numbers

 

[JetBlack69]

Calc 1 I believe we could use calculators, but nothing fancy like TI-8x or anything. Calc 2 and 3, no calculators.

 

[UglyCasanova]

Originally posted by: Synergy
where I took cal (Cal I - III) all the professors let us use calculators but on the test, they used symbols instead of numbers

That's a good idea.

 

[xyion]

I havent been allowed to use a Calculator in the majority of my classes in college (doing EE). Some classes we were able to use them, but you always have to show all your work, so plugging it into a Ti-89 was only useful for checking answers. They want method, not answers.

 

[pennylane]

Sometimes yeah. Most of the time no. On our tests we had symbols instead of numbers anyway, so it was only good for checking. (this was high school actually)

 

[NogginBoink]

Originally posted by: Synergy
where I took cal (Cal I - III) all the professors let us use calculators but on the test, they used symbols instead of numbers

That's pretty much it. Calculus is all symbolic, not numeric. Calculators wouldn't help a whole heck of a lot.

 

[rocadelpunk]

well for graphing stuff it's nice and for doing inverses of tan : P

but calc 1 don't need it really.

physics i would say so ;0.

 

[phreakah]

Originally posted by: TommyVercetti
Yeah we were. But when I came to Cal 3, no calculators allowed. So annoying.

 

[woodie1]

Originally posted by: HappyPuppy
No. They hadn't been invented yet.:Q

In some cases we could use our slide rules.

 

[WhiteKnight]

We were never allowed to use calculators in any math classes.

 

[dighn]

if you aren't allowed calculator then there won't be complex numerical computations. now using graphing calculator for symbolic calculus is just cheating

 

[PrincessGuard]

Originally posted by: NogginBoink

Originally posted by: Synergy
where I took cal (Cal I - III) all the professors let us use calculators but on the test, they used symbols instead of numbers

That's pretty much it. Calculus is all symbolic, not numeric. Calculators wouldn't help a whole heck of a lot.

The TI-89 has symbolic calculus and differential equations.

 

[hdeck]

Originally posted by: UglyCassanova
Nope.

i've never been able to use a calculator in any college math class =O (this is calc 1, 2, differential cal, and geo)

 

[theNEOone]

it depends on the school/professor. no calculators allowed in any math classes in my school.




=|

 

[WinkOsmosis]

I didn' get to use a calculator for any test.

 

[ElFenix]

no

EDIT: i didn't take calc 1 in college

 

[Woodchuck2000]

As long as you know your multiplication tables, there should be no need for a calculator in the vast majority of questions. Doing maths without a calculator builds character...

 

I haven't taken calculus in college, but in high school AP Calc, we were allowed to use our calculators for a good part of every test. There was usually a non-calculator section though.

 

[NoReMoRsE]

No calculators allowed at University of Toronto Calculus 135.