Re: hp 41c/v/x calculator Message #7 Posted by Bob on 5 Feb 2003, 8:33 a.m., in response to message #1 by Joe Edwards
I think that, since the HP41CV got me through engineering school at the University of Illinois, it will probably work for today's students. Much is now done on laptops and pc's regardless. Whether they would want to risk losing/damaging it or not would be another matter. I also had to use a Math Pack and wrote a half dozen programs to fill the gap for what I needed at the time. It is still a very capable machine, but the 42S is probably a better choice for student life.
Now, the other part of the question is whether TI's marketing effort, which seems to have affected every school teacher known to mankind, would make it practical. (Do they get free calcs, or what ?) Most students that I talk to HAVE to use a TI-83, since the teacher has a file of programs geared to classroom use.
Perhaps, if HP were interested, the forum (I guess I'm somewhat volunteering you and your site, Dave. Sorry) could act as a generator of classroom friendly programs for entire math classes to make the choice of calc moot.
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