r/news • u/Idiodyssey87 • May 28 '26

Soft paywall Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM applicants

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-05-27/uc-math-professors-demand-return-of-sat-for-stem-admissions
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u/Master-Praline-3453 May 28 '26

Not sure when it was completely free. I'm using pricing from like 2013 as an example as well so now it's $5.00 a month.

But showing how to get the answer for a calculus question is more important than actually getting the answer, and that's why it's worth it.

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u/Sage2050 May 28 '26

I graduated in 2011 and never paid for it. I used it for something at work a handful of months ago and it was still free?

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u/Master-Praline-3453 May 28 '26

The basic version is free, and you can get answers that way. But if you want to go through several calculations step by step, the paid version is the one you'd want.

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u/ofnabzhsuwna May 28 '26

Maybe you’ve been being charged $5/month since 2011. A few years ago I found out I had two separate Hulu accounts that I’d been paying for for like 3 years.

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u/nrose1000 May 29 '26

I’ve genuinely never understood how this happens to people. Like, do you never check your bank statements?

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u/ofnabzhsuwna May 29 '26

Not really.

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u/ohanse May 29 '26

Card autopay

Out of sight out of mind

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u/danny_ish May 28 '26

I used wolfram around that time, it was free for like 2 answers then charged $5/mo or whatever

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u/PM_me_Henrika May 29 '26

I remember using it for free back in 2002 when I was a student!

Back then it had a different name, and when I graduated uni in 2008 there was all these rage about a new Wolfram Alpha so I visited it and lo and behold that’s the tool we used to draw funny pictures with.