Cheating...or just being "efficient"

[RockySLP]

well there were no rules...it just said "have a calculator"...

If he says "have a calculator," he probably expects you to write out the equation, make the appropriate compounding adjustments, and then use the calculator to find your final answer. In other words, you would only be multiplying, adding, etc.

If he is not teaching you how to use a financial calculator (e.g. TI BA-II) he doesn't intend for you to be using a calculator function to solve the problem, which is what your TI-83 is doing for you.

I see this as cut and dry, but talk to the professor.

Instead of using a TI-83 with a program that any dummy could use (I think this is a little closer to cheating), get a finance calculator.

The TI-83 can perform the same tasks without turning you and circles. Beyond that, MS Excel.

I would say the moral aspect is equivalent.

 

[Mumbles]

Lazers....I meant Motbaille's yellow walking shlong avatar..

 

[LazersGoPEWPEW]

Ohhh yea I see now.

 

[KnightNArmor]

I have a teaching degree and some experience teaching classes that require calculators. I will tell you this, it's probably a good idea to have some kind of work to show the professor. It could just be the formula or equation you used to find the answer. Even if you don't have to turn the work in, having something like that on paper shows that you understand the concepts even if the calculator does the work for you. The professor wouldn't allow you to have a calculator if he didn't intend for you to use it at some level.

my .02

 

[phrogdriver]

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Phrogdriver: I think I speak for everyone when I say "What the HELL is your avatar??"

It looks like a mangled, uncircumcised penis with teeth.

/Threadjack

It's the rare, but hilarious looking, Naked Mole Rat.