1. Integrating CAS in Post-Secondary Education
... a source of student dissatisfaction. He quotes a student complaining, "Mathematica would cause a lot of problems. If I make a mistake in the syntax, I couldn't do my work" (p. 31). Tiffany and Farley (2004) exclusively focus on common mistakes in Maple, emphasizing the hurdle for practitioners caused by syntax. Practitioners employ various schemes attempting to minimize this difficulty. Some such as May (1999) design interactive workbooks that ... eliminate the need for teaching syntax entirely. Others like Herwaarden and Gielen (2001, p. 2) provide Maple handouts with expected output t...
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