Teaching kids real math with computers/calculators

[Csaba Tizedes]

(08-26-2018 02:05 PM)grsbanks Wrote:  go and get a machine that's worth a bit more than your average cheapo Casio [...] ticks most of the boxes you enumerated in your last post.

Hmm, maybe a TI-83/84 or a HP39gs fullfills these points and the price is much better than a SwissMicro calc - or if I want to hit them into the deep, I will power up my 12Cs. I have lot of them - and easy to buy a spare. Unfortunately the scientific functions are missing.

I have 15C, but I think at the beginning no need a too complicated stuff. Much more applicable a calculator which can be fits to their studies. For example on a 15C you cannot use the fractions. But on a CASIO you can show the result of a program calculation as a fraction. (Eg. a program which finds a well estimating fraction of a real number or the roots of a quadratic equation as a fraction.)


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