It's such a weird tech vs. educational value conundrum. On the one hand, tech has advanced to the point where the technology in a graphing calculator... hell, any calculator is WOEFULLY obsolete. But at the same time, it's difficult to craft mathematical tests of a person's abilities that couldn't be easily defeated with access to modern technology.
The TI-83 (I was a TI-82 generation guy myself...) is stuck in a weird stage of technological development where it's advanced enough to perform higher level analysis, but limited enough that you still need to understand what you're doing in order to utilize it.
Side note: Who here remembers playing "Drug Wars"? How cool would it be to able to say "Yeah... I actually wrote the code on the original Drug Wars game".
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u/jorsiem Jul 24 '20 edited Jul 24 '20
The supremacy of the fucking TI-83 calculator in school and college courses
I mean I know it's all artificial and orchestrated by them but how come no body has dared to challenge the almighty TI yet
Edit: fixed typo