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if using Mathematica to solve an algebraic problem is like copying

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• Subject: [mg108878] if using Mathematica to solve an algebraic problem is like copying
• From: Richard Fateman <fateman at cs.berkeley.edu>
• Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 08:02:03 -0400 (EDT)

from someone else, then consider this article, which
suggests that students (at MIT, at least) learn significantly
less, in some sense by copying their homework.

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/homework-copying-0318.html

Of course this would be similarly true for other computer systems.

While the details of the experimental setup may not match, the
results are startling.