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>>lewisf+(OP)
I love how the answer given to this problem is more funding. Such an indication of what's wrong with modern education. This entire article is exposing the TI monopoly on calculators, getting 85-90% profit margins, and our solution is to strike to get taxpayer money to keep paying for the things? We should encourage competition.

Consider - an app that replicates this functionality on the phone, but tracks if the user at any point closes the app. This then is reported to the teacher so the teacher knows if there was any cheating.

>>julien+t21
Here's an idea: Stop trying force the backwards notion that using tools is cheating. There is 0 reason that any high-stakes test needs a calculator.

This simple change will improve the quality of education and reduce the cost of calculators.

>>gowld+i81
You can Google almost any high school math question verbatim and find a QA site with the verbatim answer, perhaps with numbers switched around.

>>vortic+fc1
Which just speaks to the low quality of high school math questions, no an inherent flaw with providing access to technology. Try doing the same with the typical AMC problem…

>>saagar+ej1
No, it speaks that there are hundreds of millions of pupils worldwide learning roughly the same material. Try making a creative new question for each, every year...

>>andrep+4k1
Procedural generation of math problems is solved.

>>failra+Ul1
Unless you mean "changing the numbers around" there is no universe where this is remotely true.

>>andrep+OM2
I don't think you are using your imagination. Madlibs-style templating is one solution. Another would be using a context free grammar. Evolutionary equation generation.