Are there STEM courses where requiring a calculator for exams makes sense?
Statistics maybe
Probably most of them? I don't understand the question.
>>7696276
engineering, physics, chem
>>7696276
any engineering class because getting it wrong IRL will result in people dying or losing lots of money and your ass getting fired and certifications revoked.
>>7696276
Depends on the course.
AE student here. Most of my courses prohibit the use of calculators, mostly because the objective of most exams is to verify you know the subject, and in many cases that you can create mathematical models of whatever you need to model, so calculators aren't even needed. However in some cases you don't need to model anything; in Orbital Mechanics I had to calculate orbital transfers and maneuvers and such, there was nothing to model, there's not much to model about orbits anymore, and the amount of calculations was huge and a good calculator was absolutely required.
So yeah, there are, but less than you might think.
Obviously as a Math major not a single one of my classes required one. I'd use one now and then for approximating things to try and see patterns, but more often than not that was a waste of time.
>>7696279
Actually now that you mention it, my upper-division Statistics class DID require some light calculations. But I think that was just to cater to actuaries since that was most of who took that class.
>>7696288
Its not hard when a computer does all the crunching and numbers. You were memed my friend.
>>7697994
As a math major I can attest to this. I've always found it funny how math majors never use calcualators.
>>7698003
>crunching numbers
Fuck you
You don't really NEED a calculator when you are learning because they are teaching the method.
Now, if the numbers are real messy like irl, then calculators are sometimes necessary. But in uni, it doesnt get real messy and professors let you get away with using constants or reducing the answer to the simplest form, even if its something like sqrt(4(e-e^-1)/3pi).
Any course with a focus on computation.
>>7696279
Not really. Only if it is focused on computations.
Physics duh
My Uni forces us to buy their own approved versions of calculators because apparently you can programme normal calculators to shit the answers for you in exams, you're literally not allowed to sit the exam without one, money grubbing bastards
