Perhaps I’d be working as an engineer these days instead of a reporter if I could have had access to WolframAlpha during my college years.
Or not.
Anyway, as The Chronicle of Higher Education pointed out in an article posted Friday: “The long-running debate over whether students should be allowed to wield calculators during mathematics examinations may soon seem quaint.”
The article continues: “The latest dilemma facing professors is whether to let students turn to a Web site called WolframAlpha, which not only solves complex math problems, but also can spell out the steps leading to those solutions. In other words, it can instantly do most of the homework and test questions found in many calculus textbooks.”