<p>I was looking through the archives of last night’s chat session, and read that calculators are not allowed on Notre Dame’s math tests (even Calculus!). Please tell me this rumor is false, because I didn’t think it was even possible to do Calculus without a calculator.</p>
<p>I haven’t heard that, but then again I haven’t taken a true math class here either. Calculators were allowed for Psychology Statistics, for what it is worth?!?</p>
<h2>Maybe it’s a new thing they’re starting up? Anyways, here are the two questions that apply:</h2>
<p>I heard a rumor that in your first two years you can’t use a calculator in math class. Is this rumor true?
Peter - Plymouthia, MN
(8:30 PM) </p>
<p>ND Admissions:</p>
<h2>Peter, that is correct, calculators cannot be used on math tests. </h2>
<p>Now going back to that math-claculator rumor, does this ban on calculators apply to all maths? Calculus?
Adri</p>
<p>ND Admissions:
Adrian, calculators are not allowed on calculus tests. Some teachers of other math courses will allow them.</p>
<p>That’s blatantly false. My Calc II for Business class last semester required a graphing calculator, and I used it every day and on every test.</p>
<p>Hmm…I find it hard to believe that the ND Admissions officers would be wrong. Maybe I’m misreading something? </p>
<p>EDIT: The questions only applies to the first two years.</p>
<p>my dad went to ND and he always tell me this story about him and a friend throwing their calculators off some building after a math test…</p>
<p>so i guess they use calculators.</p>
<p>I’m a freshman. You take Calculus I and II for Business if you’re intending to go into the Business school, or otherwise satistfy your math requirement. Both are taken in your freshman year if you’re going into Business.</p>
<p>As both are freshman classes, and both require a calculator, the statement that you’re not allowed to use one in your freshman year is incorrect.</p>
<p>I’m a physics major, formerly an engineering major. I have been allowed to use a TI-89 indisciminately in every course I wanted to since I got here.</p>
<p>NDisthe best –
Do you have a link for the chat session from last night?
Thanks!</p>
<p>Some math teachers allow them, some don’t. My calculus 3 prof from last semster didn’t want to let us use them, but since we had tests with the rest of the calc 3 classes, everyone was allowed to have a graphing calculator on the exams. So the rumor that calculators aren’t allowed for calculus is definitely not true.</p>
<p>Trance, go here, then choose “Join Our Live Chat Now”. Then simply refresh the page and the entire session can be viewed.</p>
<p><a href=“https://admissions.nd.edu/chattime/[/url]”>https://admissions.nd.edu/chattime/</a></p>
<p>I still don’t understand why the admissions officers would tell everyone that calculators aren’t allowed on math tests unless they knew for sure.</p>
<p>Is it even possible to do Trigonometric functions (sine, cosine, tangent) without a calculator?</p>
<p>thanks, NDisthebest !</p>
<p>Yeah, you can. My math teacher showed us the old books with tables of sine, cosine, and tangent listed from 0-180 degrees by every hundredth degree.</p>
<p>If calculators are allowed, why would admissions officers try to scare students off by saying they aren’t allowed?</p>
<p>My Calc 2 professor does not allow them on exams. This is science/engineering calc, though, not business. I am really dreading the first exam.</p>
<p>I think I remember son said no calculators on tests in his Calc class this past fall–engineering also! I also remember that his high school Calc AP-BC class did not allow calculators on some tests either–so he was not that surprised or worried this past fall at Notre Dame. Or, at least it wasn’t a shock–the shock was obviously from the AP teacher in high school!~</p>
<p>I attend the University of Chicago, and calculators are not allowed in pure math classes (stats, yes), nor were they allowed on the calc placement test. As they put it to us: You don’t need a calculator to write a proof. </p>
<p>I used a calculator minimally when I took calc in high school, and I am glad that I now am weaned from it. I find that, when one does not use a calculator, one gains a deeper knowledge and appreciation of the subject. Just my thoughts on this.</p>
<p>im a first year student at ND and the truth is some profs let you use it, and some simply don’t. im a business major and last semester i took calc I for business and i was able to use a calculator. my roommate however is in premed and they didnt allow him to use one. i have another friend (who also is a freshman) who took calc for engineering last semester and she wasnt allowed to use one either. i guess it depends what field ur in and who ur teacher is.</p>
<p>depends on the class. it is deceptive to say that they are not allowed. calculators are not allowed in MATH 10350,10360,10550,10560, etc (which are math classes for science majors and honors math classes). However, calculators are allowed in 10250 and 10260 which are calculus for business classes.</p>