Subject: Re: Calculus calculators
From: Bill Richter <richter@math.northwestern.edu>
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 09:22:01 -0600

Steve, that's interesting: http://www.math.jhu.edu/~wsw/89/study89.pdf
I liked this:

   An easy explanation is to assume that this is the result of a
   slowly degenerating mathematics professor.  I am not inclined to
   look favorably upon that explanation.

Can you explain your thesis, though?  That the problem is that the SAT
tests allows & encourages the use of calculators?  I wouldn't be too
surprised if you were right, but you didn't explain why it would be.