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Re: A92: TI ANNOUNCES NEW CALC!!!!!
All this talk about SATs is a bunch of garbage. The calculators aren't even
required and aren't necessary on the SATs. Even on the MATH II test the vast
majority of problems can be done without a calculator. A friend of mine forgot
his once and took that test and got like 750 (I got 800 with a calc). As far as
the Calculus AP test is concerned, if you can't do the math on it by hand (I
don't mean computations, but integrals, derivatives, trig identities, and just
algebra), then you probably shouldn't take the test, because that's the whole
point. I've been through advanced Calculus and differential equations now, and
can conclusively say that nothing more advanced than an 82 is needed. (82 is
good because of graphing, list operations, and matrix operations (for linear
algebra)) I do own a 92 and think its a pretty neat thing, and I like to play
around with it.
NDStein wrote:
> I am a freshman in high school, and I know perfectly well what the SATs are.
> I can say for a fact that I never cared one bit about it not being allowed on
> the SATs. If the TI-92 was sold with the plus module for the same price as
> the 89 in a store, I'd buy the 92 because of the higher resolution screen and
> stuff. I got my TI-92 to do higher math, not so I could have an excuse for
> not knowing math on the SAT.
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