Craig A.

asked • 04/27/23

Calculators in academia.

Coming back to academia after decades. When is it permissible/customary to use calculators in arithmetic. (should I be able to calculate 88 in my head?

Brenda D.

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Hi Craig A, such a question may be there to test your knowledge or use of the calculator required for your class or the online calculator allowed during testing or both. Often to prevent cheating, only online calculators per terminal/student access screen is allowed. No cell phone, hand held calculators or other online calculators being allowed. No screen or memory sharing either during tests unless it is screen sharing with the instructor or only to ask questions if needed. That said a class may have different types of allowances for homework. Homework is the opportunity and time to learn not just have someone do it for you. It best to try yourself, check your answers, if incorrect then seek help with homework so that you can complete tests alone.
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04/28/23

Mark M.

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You should be able to do evaluate 8^2 without a calculator!
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Raymond B. answered • 04/27/23

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SAT's require calculators, and usually more of the $100+ TI-84's or advanced graphing calculators, not the cheap $10 calculators.


One "minor" problem is some students use calculators with a large memory and pass around their calculator to other students, helping them cheat, copying the answers in the memory

but with the pandemic and zoom, internet courses, student cheating is already rampant. What's a little more cheating? or so it seems.


Or, there's endless online calculators, graphing calculators, Mathpapa equation calculators, integral and derivative calculators, system of equations calculators and more. Just plug in the problem and out pops the answer, with step by step solutions. Also z-score calculators for statistics. plug in the data, out pops the probabilities, standard deviation and mean


Or post your question on Wyzant, and someone will likely answer, sometimes within minutes, or hours. Not always, but if you post the problem coherently, you'll usually get an answer from one of the tutors

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