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High School students in Denmark are taught How to use a CAS (Nspire, GeoGebra’s algebra window, Maple or similar). To test that they know a Cas, some exercises
by soegaard 9y ago
High School students in Denmark are taught How to use a CAS (Nspire, GeoGebra’s algebra window, Maple or similar). To test that they know a Cas, some exercises contain equations, deriviates or integrals that only a cas can solve (or at least are harder than a high school student is expected to handle by hand).
- jacobolus 9y agoLearning about how to use such tools seems fine, but testing that in exams (and then worrying about whether the students are cheating, etc. etc.) seems completely misguided computer fetishization to me. YMMV. If you want to get students to demonstrate their use of a CAS, give some real-world modeling problems, and then give them a few days to make a mathematical model (using the CAS, or whatever other tools they prefer) and write up a mini paper about it.