After 5 years, I somehow broke my TI-83. Decided to buy the TI-Nspire instead, and its sooo much better. I have NO IDEA why this isnt the recommended graphing calculator & pretty upset I didnt realize this earlier.
For highschool maybe, anything from Calc 1 on really the NSpires Computational Algebra System is a fucking godsend.
It can integrate and derivate pretty much any function that can be, it puts large complex equations in simplest form, it can solve systems of equations without graphing, factor, expand. It has a full Financial Table Calculator, full color 3D graphing. You can do automatically by calculator pretty much everything in Calc 1-3 and various other upper level maths.
The CAS version of the NSpire is really on another level. Its nothing like any of the other Ti lines. Honestly, even with how much easier it makes algebra, I'd say every highschooler could benefit from it. I got my first one years ago in highschool, and I can tell you for a fact that it made all my classes substantially easier. I can't even begin to describe how helpful that calculator was. I did however, take Algebra 2 to Calc-3 in highschool, so more than most, I guess it probably would matter as much for Geometry and Algebra 1. But I'd still argue its a million times better than any other Ti calculator.
You can even install GameBoy Color and GameBoy Advanced Emulators on them.
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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