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

[SuepaFly]

I think only simple calculators, like ones with plus, minus, divide, multiply, and square root. Kind of a pain, but I wouldn't change it looking back.

 

[Special K]

I will be a junior this fall, and so far:

Calc I and II - no calculators
Calc III - calculators allowed (although their usefulness was limited - the TI89s will evaluate a triple integral but they sure won't tell you how to set it up when all you are given is a description of the region in terms of equations of planes, cones, circles, etc.)
Linear Algebra/Diff. Eq - no calculators, and for a lot of linear algebra problems they wouldn't have done much good anyway

also only one of my EE classes so far has permitted the use of calculators

 

[wyvrn]

Both my Calc teachers banned calulators for the whole class. If it was going to be a difficult simplification at the end, the profs just wanted us to break it down as far as we could go. Too much chance of someone using a Calc to do their exam or store notes, which were not allowed. That was fine with me because I didn't want to spend money on one of those nice calcs just for two classes anyway. Linear Algebra also no calculators.

 

[goob2k]

Both calc classes I've taken at the University of Kentucky (Calc I & II) have allowed calculators. It's kinda up to the professor though.

 

[BCYL]

We were allowed to use non-graphical calculators...

 

[slpaulson]

Not in madison wisconsin

 

[Spac3d]

No.

 

[Feldenak]

Nope, no calculators were allowed in my Calc1 class.

 

[Sephy]

Thats lame as hell....a math class with no calculators. I never will understand why some teachers do that.

 

[dxkj]

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

just need an 89 or higher then

 

[dighn]

Originally posted by: Sephy
Thats lame as hell....a math class with no calculators. I never will understand why some teachers do that.

numerical computation is usually not what's being taught so the numbers are usually very simple. and if you use a calculator to do the symbolic stuff for you... well that's just cheating imo

 

[minendo]

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

No and as a matter of fact we were not allowed to use calculators in any of our math classes.

 

[silverpig]

We were allowed, but no one ever did. There's no point when you can't even do the questions on a calculator (the questions we got were un-doable on calculators anyways... mostly proofs).

 

[beer]

Originally posted by: Sephy
Thats lame as hell....a math class with no calculators. I never will understand why some teachers do that.

What's the highest level math you have taken?

In college-level classes, only calculators like the TI89 or TI92 are even a remote help. Anything else is basically worthless.

 

[Spoooon]

In most of the calculus classes I took, calculators weren't even necessary.