Le mercredi 1 mars 2017 22:58:48 UTC+1, rjf a écrit : > > As I have said before, the objective of most students taking calculus > is to pass the course so they never have to know any of this integration > stuff ever again. Thus computer systems are useful primarily to > help them do homework (cheat?). And for this work, Maxima is probably > sufficient. > > > A reasonable CAS on a smartphone/tablet/calculator is sufficient for students learning calculus (at some point geogebra will certainly provide the CAS window on their app). Otherwise I believe that more symbolic integration is essentially interesting for benchmarks (beware that they may be biaised) and to make regression tests (compare output and check that the derivative of the antiderivative is the original function).
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