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.
And effectively mandatory in schools that didn’t make it truly mandatory. I had to explain a LOT that yes, this is a proper calculator, it’s just a Casio because it was $50 instead of $150.
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
Anything with a qwerty keyboard like the ti 89 was banned.
And the shenanigans were mostly bypassed if the teacher made you hold out your calculator so they can press the factory reset/clear memory button themselves, just before a test.
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.
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.
And effectively mandatory in schools that didn’t make it truly mandatory. I had to explain a LOT that yes, this is a proper calculator, it’s just a Casio because it was $50 instead of $150.
TI and collegeboard have been in bed together for years.
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
Anything with a qwerty keyboard like the ti 89 was banned.
And the shenanigans were mostly bypassed if the teacher made you hold out your calculator so they can press the factory reset/clear memory button themselves, just before a test.