An Interesting Statement

An Interesting Statement

"It is really hard to write an AP calculus test question where the TI-89 does not give a definite advantage" Ken Collins, NCTM conference session.

What implications do you see from this statement?

Responses from this session:

	What about students who don't have calculators?
	The calculator does the thinking
	Does this limit the quality of the test?
	We need to give careful consideration of what we test.
	We need to ask meaningful questions
	We need to require more than just a single numerical answer
	It might be testing how good a calculator is.

We could take the attitude:

Do away with the calculator for testing

Or we could consider:

The calculator is a tool

Write questions that will require the use of the tool

	Harder questions
	More interesting problems