Re: TI-89 and AP Test

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Subject: Re: TI-89 and AP Test
From: Rahat Husain <rahusain@EROLS.KOM>
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 19:13:03 GMT
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Why don't they just make the AP harder?

On Thu, 24 Dec 1998 21:36:27 +0000, Peter Ammon
<Peter_Ammon@rocketmail.com> wrote:

>The College Board allows the new TI-89 on the AP Calculus AB and BC
>tests.  The TI-89 can do definite integrals symbolically; in other
>words, if you ask it for the integral of 1/Sqrt(1-x^2) from 0 to 1 it
>will tell you Pi/2 instead of 1.5708...
>
>It was not infallible; for example, it failed to solve the integral from
>0 to infinity of e^-(x^2)  (Sqrt(pi)/2, if you don't remember), but it
>was still damn powerful.  Now, who's going to bother learning how to
>integrate if the calculator will do it for them on the AP test?  I say,
>either ban the TI-89 from the AP or lengthen the calculator-less section
>of the test.
>
>Comments?
>
>-Peter
>

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