Hi,
Unfortunately, I'd love to do the same in AP Calculus but Graphing Calculators are required on that AP exam. The students need to use the Graphing Calculator all year to be proficient enough by May.
in my state of Germany the graphical calculator ist just being adopted as mandatory in high-school math (last three years).
As much as I like Python, I understand the administration's point that PCs/tablets are not an option, because they can't be used in exams (too much risk of cheating with WIFI, other installed programs ...).
Schools can choose to use a CAS, but then they get entirely different graduation exam questions. Even then, it is most likely they have to use CAS-calculators (quite expensive but bought by the students) because otherwise the schools would have to keep a whole set of tablets ready for the exams and guarantee that only the CAS-program can be used during the tests.
My experience with Python certainly helped me to get my head round the way _simple_ graphical calculators work with lists quickly. OTOH the average math classes here have just 135 min a week and must cover calculus, vectors, matrices (to a certain degree) and statistics. Not much time to use different tools. Perhaps even not enough time to learn to use the more complicated calculators proficiently along the way. So I always look for tools which are as simple to use as Python. That might rather be the more simpler graphical calculator (versus the high-end type which can do so much more but requires months of tool-training).
Just my 2c Christian So, adding
SAGE/python to the mix there would not be helpful. If only the CollegeBoard would allow PC/Tablet based calculators/programming languages/CASs, I'd be all over it!
In fact, I just started a
DonorsChoose project to at least replace my Graphing Calculators (TI-83/TI-89) with something more modern (TI Nspire CX CAS): http://www.donorschoose.org/calcpage2010?active=true Sincerely, A. Jorge Garcia Applied Math, Physics & CS http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009 2013 NYS Secondary Math http://PAEMST.org Nominee _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
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