• undefinedTruth@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    Can someone tell me what is the point of a graphing calculator? And before you ask yes I have studied engineering and we were never asked to buy one, we just used Matlab. I am genuinely curious I’ve never used one.

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      22 hours ago

      I think TI has a racket or monopoly going on, using contacts with schools to make their calculators the mandatory ones they have to use.

    • blackbeards_bounty@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 day ago

      Back in the day it was a tool booth for aiding the education of advanced math, while I have to assume exposing kids (high school) to some technology. The TIs were the standard bearer because they were known to academia, and met their requirements for making cheating difficult enough. I forget the models that weren’t allowed because they had some feature(s) that enabled cheating more, but, lemme just say, even the TI-83 or 82 enabled plenty of shenanigans

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      2 days ago

      Buying the required TI calculator was already a hardship for me at ~$60 when I was in high school:( Probably this one won’t be required though