Timeline for Students use WolframAlpha. Can we change calculus instruction to exploit it while discouraging 'cheating'?
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| Aug 29, 2022 at 16:15 | comment | added | user21820 | Not really the kind of answer you are looking for, but it's trivial for any trained mathematician to easily come up with problems on which WA actually gets the WrongAnswer! As long as you do not report it before the students hand in a graded assignment, you can have some fun by including such problems on the assignment and make cheaters learn this truth about WA the hard way. | |
| Dec 24, 2017 at 20:53 | answer | added | jfkoehler | timeline score: 3 | |
| Dec 14, 2017 at 19:12 | answer | added | guest | timeline score: 5 | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:50 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Mar 29, 2014 at 23:12 | comment | added | user507 | Computer algebra systems can't do problems that involve real-world applications, or that require the result to be interpreted. | |
| Mar 23, 2014 at 3:41 | answer | added | doraemonpaul | timeline score: 6 | |
| Mar 20, 2014 at 18:49 | comment | added | Brendan W. Sullivan | I want to reiterate my point in asking the question, and state that this should not be closed. I'm specifically asking about college calculus courses, and looking for activities/assignments that make use of these systems. I don't want this to be a general discussion of technology in teaching, which is what that "similar thread" seems to be. | |
| Mar 20, 2014 at 18:48 | answer | added | vonbrand | timeline score: 5 | |
| Mar 20, 2014 at 18:47 | comment | added | Brendan W. Sullivan | @SantiagoCanez: Yes, of course. I say that a lot to the students. I suppose I'm looking for ways to show that point, rather than just tell it. | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 21:54 | comment | added | Santiago Canez | "Why do I need to learn this when WolframAlpha can do it for us?" Because the point of a math class really isn't to learn how to do computations, it's to learn how to recognize patterns in order to understand when certain computations would be applicable. | |
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| Mar 19, 2014 at 19:34 | comment | added | Brendan W. Sullivan | @vonbrand: I think the motivation of this question is similar, but I like to think I have a more focused view on what answers will be here. That other question is much broader. | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 19:32 | comment | added | vonbrand | possible duplicate of On the use of calculators in elementary/high school? Computer algebra systems later on? | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 19:18 | comment | added | quid | Incidentally I created the technology-in-education tag in paralle. I though it fits nicely and thus replaced software and computers. | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 19:16 | history | edited | quid |
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| Mar 19, 2014 at 19:11 | history | asked | Brendan W. Sullivan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |