Back when we were doing quadratic equations; I wrote a program on my TI-84 that would ask which parts of the equation you already had, and would fill in the rest for you.
My teacher liked it so much he bought a transfer cable for those calculators so he could get a copy for himself. Then used to to grade tests.
If a kid is smart enough to figure this out and make it work for them, they’re gonna be fine…
Back when we were doing quadratic equations; I wrote a program on my TI-84 that would ask which parts of the equation you already had, and would fill in the rest for you.
My teacher liked it so much he bought a transfer cable for those calculators so he could get a copy for himself. Then used to to grade tests.
I made one to decompose polynomials it was very good because it showed all the steps it was literally just copy what’s on the calc to the page
I did the same thing. It was allowed in general, with the correct thought, “if you can code it yourself, you know the content”
I had another “program” that would fail to run but that’s because I wrote notes into it. Doubt that was allowed.
Here in NZ they do a factory reset on your calculator at the start of every exam.
They did that here too, but students would use a cheat program that made it look like teachers were resetting it, but really the memory was safe
I don’t remember if they fully closed the loopholes, but there are inputs that programs cannot catch unless you actually replace the OS.