Also available in Blue:
http://https://www.amazon.com/Casio-fx-300ESPLS2-Blue-Scientific-Calculator/dp/B08XZRRFM6/ref=sr_1_4?crid=23UZZMVOT2N8T&keywords=fx-300ESPLUS2&qid=1694089898&sprefix=fx-300esplus2%2Caps%2C191&sr=8-4 [amazon.com]
And Pink:
http://https://www.amazon.com/Casio-fx-300ESPLS2-Pink-Scientific-Calculator/dp/B091MJ2GS3/ref=pd_bxgy_sccl_1/138-5065496-8350567?tag=slickdeals&ascsubtag=bfc412a24d7a11ee9de3ee446ae44d1d0INT&pd_rd_w=rHjPh&content-id=amzn1.sym.26a5c67f-1a30-486b-bb90-b523ad38d5a0&pf_rd_p=26a5c67f-1a30-486b-bb90-b523ad38d5a0&pf_rd_r=2KGXFGWC89X2BBTSHRB7&pd_rd_wg=2Lfo2&pd_rd_r=002ab71a-6a0f-4876-838a-f3656dff17de&pd_rd_i=B091MJ2GS3&psc=1 [amazon.com]
This post can be edited by most users to provide up-to-date information about developments of this thread based on user responses, and user findings. Feel free to add, change or remove information shown here as it becomes available. This includes new coupons, rebates, ideas, thread summary, and similar items.
Once a Thread Wiki is added to a thread, "Create Wiki" button will disappear. If you would like to learn more about Thread Wiki feature, click here.
expiredSweet.sour posted Sep 07, 2023 03:26 AM
Item 1 of 2
Item 1 of 2
expiredSweet.sour posted Sep 07, 2023 03:26 AM
Casio fx-300ES PLUS Standard Scientific Calculator (2nd Edition, Various Colors)
$9.80
$29
66% offAmazon
Visit AmazonGood Deal
Bad Deal
Save
Share
Leave a Comment
Top Comments
Good luck!
Jon
60 Comments
Sign up for a Slickdeals account to remove this ad.
The best was the HP28. It opened like a book. Lots of keys,
I gave it to my son when I got a good price on the 48. I should ask for it back.
The 28s was the best.
Honestly though, not making America's kids any smarter at math after they allowed calculators even on college admission tests.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yj7XbnY
https://www.pewresearch
And that's even after rich states like CA spending 2x+ more on K-12 than many of the countries beating America on standardized math tests.
Just buy the minimum (cost) required, but absolutely have the kids learn to do their homework by pencil and paper only, Fast.
Simply learning how to use the abacus well enough to visualize working a virtual one in one's mind (2, 3 years of lessons) will allow the little ones to murder classmates on a ton of math tests.
Disagree. What you have is a French/Asian's education-by-brutality mentality, thinking kids gets smarter by making them do things the painful way to train their muscle memory. These kind of 'smart' kids lack creativity and are merely good for menial labor if they didn't happen to have developed other qualities elsewhere.
I grew up in a system where they make students solve quadratic equations in surds (in terms of exact values including square roots) to make sure you cannot use calculators for approximate solutions. SAT math was kids play for me yet I appreciated the conceptual insight when I saw the American system teach students to solve it with a graphing calculator finding the intersect, which is the spirit of (quadratic and linear) functions and I was ashamed that the first thing that came to my mind was the formula from rote memorization. This is where the American system has an edge. Of course you get a lot of dumb kids who can't barely function, yet the ones who made it has a creative edge other places won't get.
https://www.target.com/p/casio-fx...A-79389428
I don't understand why HP won't just make the 32S, 42S, and/or 15C again, as permanent products (not a limited-run thing like they did with the 15C about a decade ago). It makes no sense, particularly with the 15C since they're already manufacturing another Voyager-series calculator, the 12C, and as such it would literally be zero effort for them to carry it as a regular product. It's ludicrous. I pity today's younger engineers and scientists. Their lives are way more difficult than is necessary, all because there are no good scientific RPN calculator options available today.
Sign up for a Slickdeals account to remove this ad.
Legit question: is there another scientific calculator that does this?
Not my use case, but just curious. I just ordered this calculator just for fun since I've only ever used Texas Instruments and wanted to see the differences.
Edit: Nevermind, I did a quick search and saw that it's on the TI-30Xa. Never used this particular TI calculator before. I used some random basic calculator then TI-30XIIS, TI-82, and finally TI-86. Recently used a TI-30XS and TI-36X Pro.
Wow, these things both feel cheap. I'm not sure how they both sell for $30 regularly. They're both super light/poor quality plastic. If you're familiar with the TI-30 solar from back in the 90's, they were way higher quality. If someone handed me these, without me knowing, I'd say they were $10 (TI) and $15 (Casio) calculators. And they are in this deal, so I guess that's good.
Looking at them/holding them, the Casio looks like a more expensive calculator. It has larger buttons and a better display. The buttons on the Casio are concave, and the TI are convex and smaller. The TI's buttons are nicer to press though. Annoyingly on both calculators, if you're using multiple fingers, you can only 'press' one button at a time. If you hit 4, then 5 (without completely releasing the 4) the 5 won't register even if it's pressed second. Maybe shouldn't be expected at this price, but it'll definitely slow you down.
The TI is super thin at the bottom then gets fatter as you go up, which again, makes it look cheap. The Casio looks much better. But out of the box it's also more annoying. On and Off on the TI are the same key with the 2nd function applied. On the Casio, it's two different buttons for some reason, which is an odd choice. Also, out of the box, it renders everything in fractions rather than decimals. So if you do 3 divided by 5 it returns 3/5, instead of 0.6. It's nice that it can do fractions, but not something you can just hand to someone as-is. There's a button to flip back and forth to decimal and I'm sure it can be set up that way by default, but when if first took it out of the box I went searching for directions.
If I had to live with one of them, I'd take the TI, the buttons just feel better and it's more intuitive, which is a shame because the Casio looks much better.
Leave a Comment