Graphing Technology Use in General: Our courses are intended to be mathematics courses, not courses in how to use graphing technology. You should not be teaching students how to use a graphing calculator more than an average of about 5 minutes per week in the classroom. If you are doing more than that you are teaching graphing technology, not mathematics. Talk to the watchdogs for any course you are teaching to get ideas about how they incorporate graphing technology in the courses they teach.

PAR 1173 - The instructor uses the graphing calculator for demonstration purposes. The instructor and students may use graphing calculators to graph lines in addition to graphing by hand. The instructor and students may use graphing calculators to illustrate factoring quadratics as well as factoring algebraically. Students can use a scientific calculator on tests.

PAR 1193 - The instructor uses the graphing calculator for demonstration purposes. The instructor and students graph y = x² and y = a^x and their variations on graphing calculators, but cannot use a graphing calculator on tests. The students can use a scientific calculator on tests.

MTH 1643 - Instructor and students are expected to do all of the following by hand and may also use a graphing calculator for

1. Shifting and translations of all the basic graphs.
2. Interest problems
3. Annuity problems
4. Matrices - Do simple ones by hand first, then show students how to do harder one on the graphing calculator.
5. Probability - Do the formulas for combinations and permutations by hand first and then show students how to use the graphing calculator.

MTH 1674 - Instructor and students are expected to do all of the following by hand and may use a graphing calculator for

1. Graphing review in Chapter 1
2. Illustrating limits
3. Illustrating derivatives - Show students how functions change both with and without a graphing calculator.
4. Illustrating the idea of area under a curve.

MTH 1684 - Instructors and students are expected to do the following by hand and may use graphing calculators for

1. Numerical techniques
2. Matrices
3. Probability

MTH 1743 - Instructors may use graphing calculators to demonstrate all graphs, including shifts and stretches. Students should be able to graph by hand. Instructors and students use a graphing or scientific calculator for doing calculations.

MTH 1753 - Instructors and students are expected to be able to draw all graphs, including shifts and stretching, and for trig tables both by hand and with graphing technology. Instructors should require exact answers for about half of the problems so that students must demonstrate that they know how to use right triangle and unit circle techniques for evaluating trigonometric functions.

MTH 1764 - Students should be taught to graph both by hand and with a graphing calculator. Instructors and students use graphing calculators for the bisection method for finding zeros of a function and for polar graphs.