[A83] Re: Symbolic...
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[A83] Re: Symbolic...
Some time ago I heard that cheating is legal, until someone sees it...
> 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...
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> > > 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
This is strange too. Why isn't the 83+SE allowed? Because it's faster?
> > 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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