[A83] Re: Symbolic...
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[A83] Re: Symbolic...
Hehe that is so true. When writing symbolic, I gained so much valuable
knowledge about math as well as programming. It was 3 years ago but my
calculus proffessor actually did require that we program math related things
once a quarter4. Of course everything was numerical and easy but I gave my
first stab at symbolic manipulation back then on conic sections. Since then
improved manipulation had been in the back of my head. This lead to the
development of symbolic.
Brandon Sterner
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gavin Olson" <gtolson@snet.net>
To: <assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 5:12 PM
Subject: [A83] Re: Symbolic...
>
> At 09:51 PM 4/10/02 +0200, you wrote:
>
> > > 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. :)
>
> I write programs to do things, at first to not have to spend time on them,
> bu t then end up learing how to dothe thing better because the program was
> a bear to write. Perhaps teachers should /require/ students to write a
> program to perform functions.
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