You will be tested on the performance expectations for the course. These involve understanding concepts, performing certain mental procedures, analyzing functions, and doing some exact evaluations. For this calculators are unnecessary. You are encouraged, however, to use calculators for your daily work to check approximate answers to homework exercises and for graphing functions. It is not wise to rely on calculators to evaluate trigonometric functions that you need to be able to do mentally.
Calculators do have appropriate uses.
All exams are closed book, closed notebook. This does not imply in any way that the lowest test score necessarily will be dropped. Your professor will not use discretionary judgements to lower your final grade. Attendance Policy . We want you to succeed in this course.