Re: TI-89

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Re: TI-89

I think it has to do with the qwerty keyboard concept.  It qualifies as a computer
with it, and a calculator without it.


Jed Davis wrote:

> GARY WARDALL wrote:
> >
> > I got a TI-89 last week. I have a TI-92+ and a TI-86 also. I believe the
> TI-89
> > will be a big seller. The salesman I bought it from said they were selling
> > very fast. But more important the TI-89 is very fine machine. The size and
> > feel of it is great. Students are going to love it, some teachers are going
> to
> > hale it others hate it. Doing mathematics has got a whole lot easier and a
> > whole lot cheeper.
> >
> > The TI-92 just was not quite right, size or key board or whatever. The TI-92+
> > is very good also. But the TI-89 is what people will really want to have.
> >
> > From an old mathematics teachers point of view the TI-89 will lead the way
> > how mathematics will be taught/learned in the future.
> >
> > Gary Wardall
> >
> > >Anyone got one yet??  Is is as good as they say it is?  What is bad/good
> > >about it.  I just ordered one, I have to wait for it to arrive.  Anyway,
> > >what do I need to be aware of?
>
> The really scary thing about the 89 is that it will be allowed on the AP
> Calculus Tests.  Anything that can do symbolic computation, especially
> derivatives, antiderivatives, DifEq's, etc. (not that this is a bad
> thing) gives an unfair advange to the person using it.  Of course, this
> kind of thing was probably said about graphing calculators on ordinary
> tests...
> Anyway, the TI-92 non-plus is still forbidden, even though the 89 does a
> lot more. This is strange.
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