• sugar_in_your_tea
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    23 hours ago

    Depending on the question, many answers in calculus are:

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    This is especially true if they don’t let you have a calculator.

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      3 hours ago

      This is especially true if they don’t let you have a calculator.

      Maybe I’m old and come from a time before calculators could do integrals and derivatives, but I never needed a calculator for calculus as it would not have helped in any way.

      And I don’t think there being four possible answers that come up frequently is a reason to make a calculus test multiple choice. What about partial credit? If you show all of your work, but make a small error at the end and get the wrong answer, you’re just fucked I guess? That’s dumb. Not a great way to teach.