<p>Do your teachers generally allow you to use programs that you have on your graphing calculators while you take tests? Do they check and erase your memories or what?</p>
<p>In my experience, my teachers have never checked out calculators.</p>
<p>However, I wouldn't get in the habit, considering you apparently live in NY, as do I. You can probably get away with it in the class, but you must remember that before Regents examinations, you have to delete your memory on your calculator, and the teachers have to verify that the memory has been deleted. At least, I know this to be the case with the Math B, but I'm not positive about the Math A.</p>
<p>In my Pre-Calc class very rarely do we get to use Calculators on tests. If we do there is either a Calculator part and a non-calculator part, or we can't use a graphing calc.</p>
<p>Now this past chapter we dealt with Graphing calcs so we may be able to use them for this test but...</p>
<p>My teacher told us since calculators automatically do everything we're learning in Precalculus, that having a calculator basically allows even a 6th grader to get a 100.</p>
<p>So thus, he strictly bans calculators on all tests...sortof screws people up when they actualy have to do things like 5^7 on paper, instead of just punching it into the calculator - and he takes off major points when people mess up on the basic arithmatic :(</p>
<p>My AP Calculus teacher teaches WITH the calculator...But we ALWAYS have "calculator" and "non-calculator" tests. Sadly, the calculator tests are always SUPER hard.</p>
<p>Our tests usually have a calculator-active and a calculator-inactive section. On the calculator section, we are allowed to use whatever programs are on our calcs (although we're usually not allowed to use TI-89s). Our teacher sometimes even gives us programs (i.e. he gave us a program that can do slope fields).</p>
<p>We also have "Calculator Tests" and "Non-Calculator Tests" in my Calculus class too. There are no students in my class that have TI-89s, so there isn't much for my teacher to worry about, though he does pass out the school owned TI-89s during the tests where a graphing calculator is required. In Pre-Calc there were only 1 or 2 instances where we were able to use calculators. It was very rare, and if so, they were to be used only for simple arithmetic.</p>
<p>There is usually never enough time to punch in so many numbers/symbols for a program, and we are required to show ALL of our work, so having programs to solve everything was almost useless. He has never checked for programs or anything though. In Calc its just handy sometimes to be able to see the graph.</p>
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but you must remember that before Regents examinations, you have to delete your memory on your calculator
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If you archive your programs, they don't get deleted when your memory is cleared.
Yay knowing ways around NY regents rules!</p>
<p>i can rarely use programs in my calc or physics class but when i do they never check them</p>
<p>Our Calc teacher encourages us to use them because we use them on the AP test. However, there is always a noncalculator part of the test.</p>
<p>they have never mentioned it and you could get away with it if you wanted to. my philosophy is that if you know the math well enough to make a program for whatever you're doing, then you should be able to use it and not hurt yourself (math-wise).</p>
<p>My teachers have never checked calculators.</p>
<p>My teacher is VERY strict and harsh on everything. So.. should I ask her to see if it's okay?? To be safe right?</p>
<p>It turns out that my teacher prohibits programs on calculators. :( I really don't get why though. Aren't they just loops that go through a bunch of calculations to get you to your answers more simply?</p>
<p>Its not that they allow you to, its just that they trust you to not to or do not think someone would do that.</p>
<p>I have teachers who do not allow calculators now that I am in college. </p>
<p>I've been doing math with NO calculuator AT ALL for a whole semester. My god, let me tell you, I've never felt so mathematically competent before!! Its a shame that schools are now leaning toward using calculators. It means the students do not really know what they are doing.</p>
<p>I don't use calculator. My teacher lets us use the 10-key one and I actually just put it on my desk in case I need it. But I don't really use it though.</p>
<p>None of my teachers make us delete our calculator memories, but my Chem teacher provides her own regular calculators and doesn't allow us to use graphing calculators.</p>
<p>Yes, I definitely think you should not soley rely on your calculator. However, it is SO useful to check your work. You could get every single question right by checking your work. That's all I use it for when I do my homework assignments. I do the computation and verify it on my calculator.. </p>
<p>I think teachers should allow programs/calculators but have students show ALL of their work. I mean, the graphing calculator can't do that right? I guess it would be kind of cheap being able to check your answer though... I do, however, think that it is indispensible in being competent using your graphing calculator too.</p>
<p>In my math class we can always use a scientific calcs, but on tests there's usually a graphing calc section and a non-graphing calc section. I feel bad for those of you who can't use any calculators on tests! I'd be doomed if that happened to me. I can barely do basic math without a calculator!</p>
<p>Like the others, we have non-calc/calc parts on our tests for calculus. My chem teacher provides her own calculators w/o programs.</p>
<p>For calc, I find that the calculator parts are much harder, because our teacher likes to be sneaky and tests us on concepts rather than calculations, so the calculator never really is that useful.</p>
<p>Also, there are specific programs our calc teacher gave us to use, because apparently they simplify the math for us (euler's method, volumes, etc). But I never end up using them because I end up wasting more time trying to figure them out hahahaha...</p>