A Calculating Web Site Could Ignite a New Campus ‘Math War’

A new Web site called WolframAlpha not only solves complex math problems, but also can spell out the steps leading to those solutions. For professors, it reopens a debate that started back with the first handheld calculators.

[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]

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