I hate that schools force these on students my kids each have laptops and phones that can do everything this calculator does yet they are still required to buy these. Still this is the best price I've seen. I still hate them though.
I hate that schools force these on students my kids each have laptops and phones that can do everything this calculator does yet they are still required to buy these. Still this is the best price I've seen. I still hate them though.
I prefer these over any app or software on a laptop... But I'm almost 40 so maybe it's because I grew up using them. I have two of them sitting in my desk.
The argument for this crap has always been that its limited functionality makes it less likely cheating or shortcuts will happen as they could happen with a phone. The reason they started allowing them in the first place is because you need to use tools to get precision answers and it doesn't make sense to walk around with a slide rule— just like nowadays it doesn't make sense in any real world situation to walk around with a ti-84. Basically a huge scam endorsed by educational and governmental systems. Yet here we are, with a healthy second hand market for ti84 which itself is intentionally crippled by a constancy of nonsensical button rotations to make each half decade's phones incompatible with the last. What I'm saying is: great deal op — glad I saw it because we need to buy yet another one too.
I hate that schools force these on students my kids each have laptops and phones that can do everything this calculator does yet they are still required to buy these. Still this is the best price I've seen. I still hate them though.
That's because laptops and phones enable communication with others and internet access for cheating. Students can upload pics of exam questions on sites like Chegg and get them solved by others during the exam.
The argument for this crap has always been that its limited functionality makes it less likely cheating or shortcuts will happen as they could happen with a phone. The reason they started allowing them in the first place is because you need to use tools to get precision answers and it doesn't make sense to walk around with a slide rule— just like nowadays it doesn't make sense in any real world situation to walk around with a ti-84. Basically a huge scam endorsed by educational and governmental systems. Yet here we are, with a healthy second hand market for ti84 which itself is intentionally crippled by a constancy of nonsensical button rotations to make each half decade's phones incompatible with the last. What I'm saying is: great deal op — glad I saw it because we need to buy yet another one too.
It truly is amazing how these things have not dropped in price in 20+ years since I was forced to buy one but now we have magic computers (cell phones) in almost ever American's pocket which could out perform these 10,000 times over but Texas Instruments keeps going strong selling the same crap using our school system as their monopolized marketplace.
I prefer these over any app or software on a laptop... But I'm almost 40 so maybe it's because I grew up using them. I have two of them sitting in my desk.
I was stem, used the same calculator from high school through grad school and then haven't touched it since. Still have it in my desk though, battery-less because the terminals keep building up deposits
I hate that schools force these on students my kids each have laptops and phones that can do everything this calculator does yet they are still required to buy these. Still this is the best price I've seen. I still hate them though.
The only time this calculator is allowed to be used in college is when students are taking statistics course. It's strange to me why high school students are required to use this calculator.
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I prefer these over any app or software on a laptop... But I'm almost 40 so maybe it's because I grew up using them. I have two of them sitting in my desk.
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I'm N 4 1 all the same... LOL
I was stem, used the same calculator from high school through grad school and then haven't touched it since. Still have it in my desk though, battery-less because the terminals keep building up deposits
The only time this calculator is allowed to be used in college is when students are taking statistics course. It's strange to me why high school students are required to use this calculator.