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[Dave Britten]

(12-07-2014 05:17 AM)Garth Wilson Wrote:  

Quote:Alas, I am now in that position of having a child needing a graphing calculator

Are you sure? It was on the required shopping list for one of our sons in high school, and instead he borrowed my old TI-59 and aced the class, unlike the kids with the TI graphing calculators who used them to look busy when really they were playing games on them.

Please tell me he was reading/writing magnetic cards in the middle of a high-school math class, because that would be utterly fantastic.

(12-07-2014 06:55 PM)CR Haeger Wrote:  I'm in same boat with my daughter. I find the Casio fx9860gII and the newer PRIZM graphers to be more capable, easier to use and lower price at $50, $70 than the TI units.

Your right though, unfortunately school peer pressure can favor TI here in the US.

The Casios are pretty nice, and relatively fast, but they have some weird arbitrary limitations, and not much integration between the modes/applications. Their programming language lacks a simple "print" statement that doesn't also pause program execution. Very weird.