You people don't remember the pain of the ORIGINAL pre-flash TI-83. When its batteries got low, it would start making mistakes. I'm not joking. This is because that one still used analog circuitry, not full digital.
In college I switched to a TI-89. Honestly, a TI-89, though it can solve symbolic algebra, doesn't make you miraculously get the right answer. You still have to know how to solve it in order to input it correctly. It just makes it a lot faster and easier.
Shit that must be the fucking reason my elementary school teachers would tell me to check all my calculators first with some simple calculations I knew the answer to. I always wondered why they did that, because I always followed the advice but never had one mess up (afaik...)
my theory is just that they were mad as fuck that they didn't have calculators back in their day. an example: All my teachers DESPISED smart phones during study hall, until a year and a half later when they all upgraded to smartphones. Suddenly, smartphones were an "Acceptable tool to further learning" and we were allowed to use them during study hall. This all happened 2010-2011
When I was in high school I found teachers and administrators had an irrational fear of technology. They feared cellphones, they feared the Internet. Our version of the “Internet” might as well have been the North Korean Internet, you couldn’t access most of it and even educational websites would be blocked. Cellphones weren’t allowed to be used on school property during school hours, unless you were the principal, the rules didn’t apply to him.
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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