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.
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.