Electronic Proceedings of the Twenty-second Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics

Chicago, Illinois, March 11-14, 2010

Paper S061

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Good Test Problems for Calculus Courses that Require the TI-89 Graphing Calculator

Mako E. Haruta


Department of Mathematics
University of Hartford
200 Bloomfield Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06117
USA


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ABSTRACT

The CAS feature of the TI-89 calculator can turn many calculus problems into button-pushing exercises that require little mathematical understanding. This paper features a challenging set of problems that creatively assess student understanding of concepts while allowing full use of the technology during testing.

Keyword(s): calculus, assessment, TI-89