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Re: Mathematica and Education

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• Subject: [mg64973] Re: [mg64934] Mathematica and Education
• From: "fizzy" <fizzycist at knology.net>
• Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 05:15:04 -0500 (EST)
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no....all exams were take home....and we were still alllowed to use 
Mathematica.....although, I had the feeling that I was the only student in 
the class doing that....I took the course as a distance learning student so 
I was not  in the classroom....and, of course, at the end of it I have a 
very large Notebook with all  my work.....which is readable, etc. whereas 
probably most pencil and paper operations would be potentially confusing, 
etc. or hard to read.....

Jerry

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Katerina Kaouri" <katerina.kaouri at maths.nottingham.ac.uk>
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
Subject: [mg64973] Re: [mg64934] Mathematica and Education


> yes, Mathematica is great for what you describe but presumably you can 
> only use pen+paper for your exams?
> Katerina.
>
> fizzy wrote:
>
>>Recently, there were several discussions regarding the use of Mathematica 
>>in the classroom, etc...   I just took a course in Advanced 
>>Electromagnetic Engineering and I'm happy to say that I did not perform a 
>>single pencil and paper operation.    I did all the homework and exams 
>>using  Mathematica.    Also,  in hindsight, without Mathematica I would 
>>never take the course nor can I conceive of how I could without it 
>>although I realize there was a time where people did work without 
>>Mathematica.    The amount of  homework was horrendous and how you could 
>>do it with pencil and paper operations is beyond me.    In fact, I've 
>>gotten so used to Mathematica that if I were told I can no longer use  it 
>>in my work, etc. , I would give Science up.   That is how attached I've 
>>become to Mathematica and how much more enjoyment I've gotten out of 
>>Science problems using it.
>>
>>Also, when I have to use other languages I feel like a Programmer and I 
>>dont relish that at all.  With Mathematica I actually feel that I'm doing 
>>some thinking and analyzing instead of just writing lines of code.
>>
>>Jerry Blimbaum
>>
>>
>>
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